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Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was an Expressionist master shaped by the experience of war, ... In 1937, Dix was included in the Degenerate Art exhibition organized by the Nazis in Munich.
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 ...
Otto Dix, “Untitled” (1918), watercolor in gray and black over pencil, 15 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Harvey S. Shipley Miller/The ...
The Nazis loathed modern art. They launched a war against it. “Degenerate Art,” an exhibition in Paris on modern art’s greatest crisis, is about culture wars and where they can lead.
Yet in their art, they brought very different sensibilities to the depiction of the horrors that shaped them. Otto Dix (1891-1969) was essentially a draftsman and caricaturist, even in his ...
A century after Otto Dix’s First World War painting The Trench (1923) provoked an outcry when it was displayed at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, the institution's successor, the Germany ...
The words are being used to describe snippets of World War 1 (WW1), as reflected in an exhibition of prints by German painter and printmaker, Otto Dix (1891-1969).
At the beginning of WW1, the young artist Otto Dix enthusiastically volunteered for the German army. In 1924, he produced a series of etchings, called 'War' a response to his terrible experiences ...
“Wounded Man (Autumn 1916, Bapaume),” from Dix’s portfolio of 50 etchings, The War (Der Krieg), shows a brutal reality that lays waste to George W. Bush’s anesthetized vision of war wounds.
Otto Dix and A.Y. Jackson: Two men, two nations, and one unforgettably horrible war ...