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Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden — Otto Dix, 1926

Otto Dix was one of the most renowned portraitists of his time. People from all walks of life longed to have their portrait painted by him. But the portrait of Sylvia von Harden was an exception in every sense. It wasn’t commissioned. Dix saw Sylvia in a café, approached her, and said he absolutely had to paint her portrait.
“You are a symbol of the era,” Dix told her.

Sylvia von Harden was genuinely puzzled:
“What exactly attracted you? My thick legs? Big feet? Tired eyes? Long arms? Long nose? Thin lips? What is it you want to paint?”

He wanted to paint all of it.
Because Sylvia von Harden embodied the new woman — independent, passionate, and unconcerned with how she was supposed to look.
In fact, she didn’t care at all about meeting anyone’s expectations of what a woman should look like.