While looking up Otto Dix portrait of Dr. Stadelmann, I also found his painting of Dr. Wilhelm Mayer-Hermann; I’d known for years that “I’m just going to make everyone look ugly
‘cos I hate’em” wasn’t really Dix’s motivation (apparently he and Dr. Heinrich Stadelmann
were pretty good friends, and a lot of his sitters were proud to have
been painted in his snarky style) but I love it that Dr. Mayer-Hermann,
years later when both he and the painting had separately ended up in
New York, apparently liked to visit his portrait in the Museum of Modern
Art and eavesdrop on people’s reactions.