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Historical Artist - Otto Dix (1891 - 1969)
After studying realism in Dresden, Dix was drafted into WWI and profoundly affected by his
experiences with trench warfare. He then continued to study in Dresden and Dusseldorf, creating
large-scale anti-war prints and collages. He later began dealing with other social messages,
depicting beggars, prostitutes and veterans in his paintings. Outraged by the Weimar Republic
and the Nazis, Dix began to criticize their politics in his work, and was therefore deemed as a
degenerate and forced to resign from his teaching position. He then adopted a less controversial
style, painting religious subjects in romantic and eventually expressionist style. Noted for his
ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and of the brutality of war, he,
along with George Grosz, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue
Sachlichkeit. After the war most of his paintings were religious allegories or depictions
of post-war suffering.
Contemporary German Artists
Art Galleries in Germany
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