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Otto Dix's art was deemed an "insult to the German heroes of the Great War." Elsewhere in the exhibition, one could see abstract paintings in the "Insanity Room." The Nazis were not fans.
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.
Before the Great War, German artist Otto Dix embodied the exact opposite of what we remember him as today. His landscape painting of 1912 Elbufer in Dresden, perfectly illustrates this and has become ...
The heavy subject matter is reflected in the muted monotone of the art. Black ink and shadows are used to highlight gaunt faces and ghastly landscapes, each capturing Dix’s memory of his time in the ...
Otto Dix refused to flatter his subjects — but they agreed to sit for him anyway. I’m no prognosticator, but I’m anticipating the return, any day now, of the house style of Germany’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gallery Network Spotlight: Works by Otto Dix, Gabriele Münter, and Max Beckmann Anchor an Expansive Exhibition on German Expressionism in Nuremberg "The Pillars of Modernity" is on view at Bode ...
The Museum of Fine Arts in Bern has voluntarily returned two paintings by Otto Dix to the heirs of the presumed owners on suspicion they were looted by Nazis. December 25, 2021 - 09:00 ...
The Frankfurt photographer, philanthropist and psychotherapist Ulrike Crespo, who died in 2019, bequeathed 90 paintings and works on paper by artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Otto ...
The German Expressionist Otto Dix, who served in the First World War, was a figurative artist, but he tipped into abstraction when revealing the innate Cubism of exploded structures or the grisly ...
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