Otto Dix

Otto Dix wurde mit seinem ambivalenten Werk, in dem er schonungslos und engagiert die Geschehnisse seiner Zeit reflektierte, zu einem der bedeutendsten deutschen Maler und Grafiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dieser Ausstellungskatalog zeigt seine Werke aus den größten nationalen und internationalen Dix-Sammlungen. Er offenbart anhand der Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle und Druckgrafiken den vielfältigen Stil des Künstlers, der vom Expressionismus über die Neue Sachlichkeit bis zu einer Technik, die an die Renaissance erinnert, reicht.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.