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Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix
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Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix
- December 2, 1891; Gera, Germany
- July 25, 1969; Singen, Germany
- German
- New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)
- Dresden Secession,Degenerate art (exhibition, held by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, named to inflame public opinion against modernism)
- painting,printmaking
- Dada,Matthias Grünewald
- Lucian Freud,Kara Walker
- Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, tysk stad, Germany
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Dix
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Otto Dix was a remarkable artist of the 20th century Germany. He occupied a lead position in the New Objectivity movement, turning away from the ideas of Romanticism and Expressionism toward a more acidic and non-sentimental perspective to reflect the harsh realities of the interwar German gemenskap. Though being a representative of the anti-expressionist movement,
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Otto Dix
German painter and printmaker (1891–1969)
For the Russian band, see Otto Dix (band).
Otto Dix | |
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Otto Dix (photograph by Hugo Erfurth, c. 1933) | |
| Born | Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (1891-12-02)2 December 1891 Untermhaus, Reuß-Gera, German Empire (present-day Gera, Germany) |
| Died | 25 July 1969(1969-07-25) (aged 77) Singen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany |
| Known for | Painting, printmaking |
| Movement | Expressionism, New objectivity, Dada |
| Spouse | Martha Dix (m. 1923) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Iron Cross, 2nd class 1918 |
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (German:[ˈvɪlhɛlmˈhaɪnʁɪçˈʔɔtoːˈdɪks]ⓘ; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969)[1] was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists o
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Otto Dix
Otto Dix, 1920. Photo: Hugo Erfurth. | |
| Born | December 2, 1891(1891-12-02) Untermhaus, Reuß-Gera, German Empire (today Gera, Germany) |
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| Died | July 25, 1969(1969-07-25) (aged 77) Singen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany (today Germany) |
| Web | Wikipedia |
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (1891–1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.
Life and work[edit]
Otto Dix was born on 2 December 1891, in a working-class family in Untermhaus, a village near Gera, Thuringia. He was the oldest child of Franz Dix, who worked as a molder in a foundry, and his wife Louise, née Amann. From 1905 to 1908 he received training as a decorative painter in Gera. In the fall of 1909 Dix moved to Dresden, where he enrolled in the School of Applied Arts in January 1910. At school Dix