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Otto Dix

Prestel USA

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This generously illustrated monograph on
Otto Dix presents the work of the controversial
German artist renowned for his unflinching
portrayal of life during war time and the
aftermath of violence. The celebrated German artist Otto Dix, a volunteer for the
German Army during World War I, went on to create some of
the most powerful anti-war images of the modern age. His
work also includes unsettling depictions of civilian life in the
Weimar Republic following World War I. This book examines
every aspect of Dix s career, from his expressionist work to his
gradual embrace of classically influenced realism. Though
many of Dix s works were destroyed under the Third Reich, a
number of his rarely seen landscapes from that era a genre
forced on him by the Nazi government as well as later works of
religious allegory are included here. The result is a timeline of
artistic development as we witness a master grapple with
creative passions and political oppression.
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Life is life, and art is art.

"It is my wish to come very close, strikingly close, to the times in which we live, without submitting to artistic dogma...I need the connection to the world of senses, the courage to portray ugliness, life as it comes." - Otto Dix

In the 1920s, Otto Dix was the artist of Neue Sachlichkeit, the New Objectivity, par excellence. Painting in a very realistic, almost photographic style, he chose as subjects the poverty, violence, death, and war that he experienced as a soldier in World War I. After this terrible experience, he painted the famous triptych The War.

Dix staged the world as a play, a grotesque farce. But the form he chose to do so was based on the classical canon of beauty. Dix lived his life and served art, for he adhered to the age-old rule that the American painter Ad Reinhardt put in a nutshell: "Life is life, and art is art."

Otto Dix: The Art of Life

Hatje Cantz

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Few painters are as strongly linked to the historical events and political catastrophes of twentieth-century Germany as Otto Dix (1891-1969). Born to a working-class family at the turn of the twentieth century, he hurled himself into the art world of the prewar era, and fought and drew on the front during World War I; after 1918, he gave that war perhaps the most honest face bestowed on it by an artist. During the Weimar Republic, Dix emerged as an enfant terrible, a dandy and an urban sophisticate, but he was also a respected professor and pedagogue, until he was driven from his position by the Nazis a few months after they came to power. Ostracized and threatened under the Nazi regime, Dix retreated to Lake Constance, where he began painting in the broader brushstokes that characterize his final phase. Published in Hatje Cantz's new Art to Read series, Philipp Gutbrod's expertly written biography examines an eventful life and a multifaceted oeuvre.
Otto Dix: 1891-1969

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Otto Dix: Hommage a Martha (German Edition)

Hatje Cantz Publishers

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Between 1921 and 1933, while painter Otto Dix was in his 30s and early 40s--in the years following the Great War, in which he had fought for Germany at the Somme, and which had driven him to make some of the most controversial, violent art of his generation--Dix put much of his artistic energy into portraits of his lover and later wife, Martha. The paintings, watercolors, drawings and humorous sketches brought together here show Martha Dix advancing through roles as a sophisticated, emancipated woman; as lover, muse, and intellectual companion; and then as mother and heart of the family. The painter's widely varying attitudes toward his most frequent model, which range from admiration and intimacy to increasing distance, transpose themselves into a myriad of styles. The titles of the works, which range from emotionally charged imagery to matter-of-fact description, underscore this shift. Martha Dix's portraits, organized here by the Otto Dix Foundation she helped to found, document the urbanity, shifting gender roles, fashions, arts and artistic and social freedoms that bloomed in the 1920s, as well as Otto Dix's shifting perspectives and techniques. Comes with a sexy garter-esque ribbon page-marker.
Otto Dix (Crown Art Library)

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Art in Review - New York Times
New York Times, United States - May 17, 347
Art in Review - New York Times New York TimesArt in Review“Sam (Winter),” from 1945, a profile portrait of one of Neel's companions reading a newspaper, has the thin surface and forms of an Otto Dix portrait, but a Symbolist-Surrealist background where swirling blue lines suggest smoke, restless thoughts and

Hölgyeim és Uraim, senki többet harmadszor, íme a 2009-es WGT ... - Híradó
Híradó, Hungary - May 17, 7906
Hölgyeim és Uraim, senki többet harmadszor, íme a 2009-es WGT Opeth (S) - Ostara (GB) - Otto Dix (RUS) - Painbastard (D) - Panic Lift (USA) - Patenbrigade:Wolff (D) - Peter Murphy (USA/TR/MEX) - Phelios (D) - Principe Valiente (S) - Project Pitchfork (D) - Psyche (CDN) - QEK Junior (D) - Qntal (D) - Ragnarök

Torsten Slama lures viewers into his brave new world - Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle, United States - May 24, 2009
Torsten Slama lures viewers into his brave new worldBut while Slama has mastered the precisely detailed rendering, uneasy mood, strange symbolism and satirical touch of such New Objectivity masters as Christian Schad, Carl Grossberg and Otto Dix, he's also made it his own,

ARTFUL TOM, A MEMOIR by Thomas Hoving - Artnet
Artnet, NY - May 22, 2009
ARTFUL TOM, A MEMOIR by Thomas HovingWe swung through a series of Modern Art galleries, fascinated with the hoary Expressionists from Otto Dix to Alfred Kubin and Kokoschka in between and Nolde and Mutter and much more. On the way to Cologne, in Bad Gottesberg, we contacted a couple we'd

Amherst Middle School - Nashua Telegraph
Nashua Telegraph, NH - May 12, 2009
Amherst Middle SchoolCailin E. Dix, Charlotte E. Dyer, Katherine R. Ede, Jack G. Engholm, Shady T. Ewiss, Wilson R. Ezequelle, Taylor J. Farrow, Sean H. Fay, Matthew R. Field, Jonah M. Foulks, Benjamin G. Gravel, Cara E. Griffith, Nathan J. Gunter, Dakota S. Hamele,