Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix 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 of the Neue Sachlichkeit.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Untermhaus
- Educated at
- Dresden Academy of Fine ArtsKunstgewerbeschule Dresden
- Awards
- 🏆 Medal Carl von Ossietzky🏆 Lichtwark Prize🏆 Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"I'm a man who is concerned with reality. I have to see everything. I have to plumb the depths of life. And so I go to war. That's why I volunteered . And when I tell people that nowadays, they say, "G…"
"Nobody wants to loo at it. What is it all supposed to mean.. ..the old whores and the old, worn out women, and of life is cares?. .It doesn't make anybody happy. No gallery wants to exhibit it.. Why d…"
"Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, shells, bombs, caves, corpses, blood, liquor, mice, cats, gas, artillery, filth, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: that is what war is! It is all the work of the Devil!"
"I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all…"
"After Herberholz had shown me all sorts of techniques, I suddenly got very interested in etching. I had a lot to say, I had a subject. Wash off the acid, put on the aquatint: a wonderful technique tha…"
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Timeline
1891
Born
Birth1969
Died
Death
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