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NIGHT WATCH.(Otto Dix)(Brief article)
Byline: Leslie Camhi
When [Otto] Dix paints people," an observer of the art scene that flourished amid the dazzling, decadent nightlife of 1920s Berlin remarked, "it is as if he were issuing warrants for their arrests." "Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s," a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, conjures the febrile intensity of an era when painters like Max Beckmann, George Grosz, and Christian Schad trolled both the beau monde and the underbelly of Weimar society, looking for faces that expressed their restless vision of modernity. Take the dancer Anita Berber: Dix's startlingly sensuous 1925 portrait of her presents a creature of artifice and sinuous, almost reptilian ferocity. (Karl Lagerfeld once dubbed her "the most daring woman of her ...
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