Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden
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Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden is a 1926 New Objectivity–style painting by Otto Dix that portrays the journalist with exaggerated, angular features and a modern, androgynous appearance in a café setting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden canonical | 1 |
| Porträt der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden Context triple: [Otto Dix, notableWork, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden]
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Ingeborg Morath
Ingeborg Morath was an Austrian-born Magnum Photos photographer renowned for her humanistic, poetic images and extensive work documenting cultures around the world in the mid-20th century.
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Inge Scholl
Inge Scholl was a German political activist and educator best known for preserving and promoting the legacy of the White Rose resistance group, in which her younger siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl were central figures.
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Nena von Schlebrügge
Nena von Schlebrügge is a Swedish-born former fashion model of German and Swedish descent who worked internationally in the 1950s and 1960s and is the mother of actress Uma Thurman.
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Käthe Jerosch
Käthe Jerosch was the wife of the influential German mathematician David Hilbert and a member of the academic social circles in Göttingen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Goebbels children
The Goebbels children were the six young offspring of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda, all of whom were killed in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin bunker at the end of World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden Target entity description: Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden is a 1926 New Objectivity–style painting by Otto Dix that portrays the journalist with exaggerated, angular features and a modern, androgynous appearance in a café setting.
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A.
Ingeborg Morath
Ingeborg Morath was an Austrian-born Magnum Photos photographer renowned for her humanistic, poetic images and extensive work documenting cultures around the world in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Inge Scholl
Inge Scholl was a German political activist and educator best known for preserving and promoting the legacy of the White Rose resistance group, in which her younger siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl were central figures.
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C.
Nena von Schlebrügge
Nena von Schlebrügge is a Swedish-born former fashion model of German and Swedish descent who worked internationally in the 1950s and 1960s and is the mother of actress Uma Thurman.
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D.
Käthe Jerosch
Käthe Jerosch was the wife of the influential German mathematician David Hilbert and a member of the academic social circles in Göttingen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Goebbels children
The Goebbels children were the six young offspring of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda, all of whom were killed in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin bunker at the end of World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artStyle |
realism with caricatural distortion
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veristic New Objectivity ⓘ |
| collection |
Centre Pompidou
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surface form:
Musée National d’Art Moderne
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| colorPalette |
browns
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grays ⓘ muted reds ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Otto Dix ⓘ |
| depictionType | full-length seated portrait ⓘ |
| depicts |
Sylvia von Harden
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androgynous appearance ⓘ angular facial features ⓘ café interior ⓘ cigarette ⓘ elongated hands ⓘ glass ⓘ journalist ⓘ mirror or framed picture in background ⓘ monocle ⓘ red dress ⓘ round table ⓘ short bobbed hair ⓘ striped floor ⓘ woman sitting in a café ⓘ |
| depictsTimePeriod | Weimar Republic ⓘ |
| genre | New Objectivity ⓘ |
| hasPart |
figure of Sylvia von Harden
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tabletop still life ⓘ |
| inception | 1926 ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | German ⓘ |
| location | Centre Pompidou ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | New Objectivity ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exaggerated, angular depiction of sitter
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example of New Objectivity portraiture ⓘ iconic image of the Weimar New Woman ⓘ |
| partOf | Weimar-era works by Otto Dix ⓘ |
| significantEvent | created during Weimar Berlin cultural flowering ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| theme |
New Woman of the 1920s
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androgyny ⓘ intellectual life ⓘ modern woman ⓘ urban café culture ⓘ |
| titleInGerman | Bildnis der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden ⓘ |
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Subject: Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden Description of subject: Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden is a 1926 New Objectivity–style painting by Otto Dix that portrays the journalist with exaggerated, angular features and a modern, androgynous appearance in a café setting.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix
this entity surface form:
Porträt der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden