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Like many Jews in the late 1930s he was forced to leave Austria, relocating in Cambridge England where he survived by painting society portraits and pastoral landscapes.

Ewers who wrote introductions to translations of Adam and Poe certainly knew the photographer Madame d'Ora writing a brochure for her in 1914 as well as being photographed by her and the sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld advisor to Oswalds ' Different To The Others' and had many contacts in the film world through his work on 'Student of Prague' 1913.

This production was to become the ' Dances of Vice, Horror and Ecstasy'.

The eyes required at least an hour of work every day—she talked incessantly and lied terribly.

By the time Otto Dix painted his famous portrait of Berber in 1925, the years of drug abuse, frenetic lifestyle, and lack of nutrition was plain to see.

The woman who once scandalized Berlin with her androgynous looks, her erotic and seductive dances and her sultry on-screen appearance was no longer so appealing.

Dix and his wife knew Berber both professionally and personally they saw several of her live performances.

This image is from the same photo session but not reproduced in the book The book is saturated with an air of morbidity and decadence; death, dreams, torture, sex and sensuality proliferate often combined with a narcissistic homosexual undertone.

They became lovers and married in 1922.

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