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A museum in the hometown of renowned German modernist painter Otto Dix will launch a new multi-year exhibition of his work beginning in October. The show in the eastern German city of Gera ...
The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) honors the work of German artist Otto Dix in a new exhibition for the centennial anniversary of his portfolio of prints, showing the horrors of the frontlines of ...
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto ... German, or Jewish. Dada was particularly disliked, and all the works included were later burned. Dix was sacked from his post at the Dresden Academy. As with all ...
The German artist Otto Dix went to war, willingly. Unlike many who fought, he had no misgivings, not initially. Not for several years in fact. Patriotism was only a small part of it; at the age of ...
Otto Dix (1891-1969) was essentially a draftsman and caricaturist, even in his paintings, whereas Max Beckmann (1884-1950) was a humanist of heroic stature—an artist for whom the highest ...
The Otto Dix Foundation, created by the artist’s widow Martha Dix in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, entrusted Dix’s estate to the academy. It includes 4,000 index cards of his works, around 300 letters ...
“Life is a cabaret” might have an awfully fun ring to it, but in the 1920s canvases of German artist Otto Dix, the “awful” often outweighs the “fun.” Nonetheless, Dix’s paintings ...
Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Otto Mueller, and more. Bringing together pieces by pivotal 20th-century German artists, the show illustrates the scope of modern artistic achievement that ...
I’m not thinking “Cabaret” and kohl eyeliner so much as the shrewd, blistering, undeluded style of German painters of the 1920s and ’30s, among them Otto Dix, Christian Schad and George Grosz.