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“The Great Imitator”: Syphilis and Clandestine Prostitution in Otto Dix’s Die Witwe Watercolors
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 33–66.
Published: 01 August 2018
... unfairly associated with prostitutes. Otto Dix, a Neue Sachlichkeit artist, was aware of the postwar ambiguity between “respectable” and “fallen” women. In a watercolor of a veiled widow, Dix engaged the elision of prostitutes and widows by visually implying she has syphilis, a disease that caused...
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Figure 6. Lip chancre of primary syphilis, Feind im Blut , directed by Walther Ruttmann, 1931, 52:29
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Figure 7. Rash of secondary syphilis, Feind im Blut , directed by Walther Ruttmann, 1931, 55:32
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