Otto Dix
1891-1969
Otto Dix is deemed as one of the most important representatives of the New Objectivity not least, due to his “Great City-Triptych” in (1927/28). After his service as volunteer during the first world war, he studied at Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden and later, at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf.
Stylistically, he followed initially the expressionism, belonged since 1920
to the Dadaism movement and developed an increasingly realistic and unsparing painting manner.
In 1933, because of the National-Socialist movements was forced to give up his professor position at the Kunstakademie Dresden. In 1936, the artist retired to Hemmenhofen am Bodensee, where he dedicated himself to landscape painting.
His ambivalent and engaged realism did not lose its impact even today.
