Anita berber

“The Dance Track.” Helene Shelda, a young Russian dancer who was inspired by the Hindus in British India, reaped great success in Paris, 1931. Via Vintage Photography and First Time User.

moniledebeaute: Modefotografie mit Anita Berber (Anita Berber in a fashion photography), by Mme D'Ora, 1921, Austrian National Library.

The woman with the shock of dyed red hair, her body wrapped in a fur coat, and a pet monkey grinning and holding tight to her neck was Anita Berber. She danced across the foyer of the Adlon Hotel opened her sable coat and revealed her lustrous naked body underneath. Men leered, goggle-eyed. Women giggled or turned their heads in shock and embarrassment. Anita Berber didn’t care. She liked to shock. She liked the attention. If she didn’t get it, she would shout and throw empty bottles or…

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Anita Berber (1899-1928) was immensely famous in 1920s Berlin. Berber was a dancer, actress, and writer who epitomized the excesses and decadences of the German Roaring Twenties. Incredibly, given …

Writer, actress and dancer Anita Berber, photographed by Madame d'Ora in 1922. As you can see from her attitude and stance she was well ahead of her time. She was androgynous, for one thing (she wore...

Anita Berber "Koreanischer Tanz"

Sebastian Droste dropped anchor in New York like a swishy Nosferatu and tried to seduce the city with his own remix of druggy Weimar dread and an assumed barony, an exotic manifestation of Mitteleu…

Anita Berber was hardcore. How hardcore? Leni Riefenstahl was her understudy. In a period when Berlin was rethinking art, politics and life itself, Berber was going further than anyone else, blurri…

Anita Berber in one of her most famous choreographies, which she named "Cocaine", 1922. Berlin is a city of ghosts and one of the most alluring phantoms is Anita Berber, the high priestess of debauchery; she of the kohl black eyes and flaming red hair and vermillion lips. Immortalised by Otto Dix