Otto Dix Paintings Ww1

In 1912 the city was home to a major exhibition of the works of van gogh.

Otto dix paintings ww1. He initially trained in gera and at the dresden school of arts and crafts as a painter of wall decorations and later taught himself how to paint on canvas. He lived through and fought in both world wars and vividly relayed the horrors of both front line. At the time he later confessed he did. As sunrise reveals the young dix was influenced by the dutch artist.

After many artists had abandoned portraiture for abstraction in the 1910s dix returned to the genre and injected sharp caricatures into his depictions of some of the leading lights of german society. Wilhelm heinrich otto dix was an expressionist master shaped by the harrowing experience of war. Otto dix was born in 1891 in untermhaus thuringia the son of an ironworker. Wilhelm heinrich otto dix german.

In 1920 dix donated sunrise sonnenaufgang to the city museum in dresden. 2 december 1891 25 july 1969 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. Before the war dix was an amateur artist working in dresden. Otto dix is regarded as a pivotal figure for the new objectivity movement in germany who had the courage to portray the uncensored versions of two harsh wars and a bleak depraved society in between using his satirical and grotesque characters and themes to make a direct statement through his artwork.

British museum dacs dix had seen these things as a frontline soldier. The trench nazi party 1940 degenerate art munich 1937 degenerate art frankfurt 1936 degenerate art rathaus dresden 1933 karl neirendorf 1925 wallraf richar. Otto dix was a german painter and printmaker best known for his unforgiving depiction of weimar society and the great war from whence it was forged. Otto dix is one of modern painting s most savage satirists.

ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhaɪnʁiç ˈʔɔto ˈdɪks. Otto dix s skull from his 1924 set of first world war drawings der kreig photograph.