Self-portrait in Bathing Suit

Margit Anna drew and painted so many self-portraits in the thirties and fourties - indeed during her entire life - that the genre deserves mention if only on account of its sheer volume. Even in her early career she presented herself as a muse, a nude, a painter, a prostitute, a circus acrobat, or a rope dancer, etc. The significance of the self-portrait is inseparable from the portrayal of her identity - her gender and Jewish background.