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German Expressionism Otto Dix |
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Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix
born: Untermhaus near Gera, Thuringia [now Germany];
2 December 1891
died: Singen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany; 25 July 1969
First part of the Otto Dix story with a bunch of pictures from before the First World War.
| 1920 | 29 | Dix meets George Grosz. Participates it the first DADA fair in Berlin with Grosz, Schlichter and Heartfield. | |
| 1921 | 30 | Visits Cologne and Düsseldorf. In Düsseldorf he meets the art dealer Mother Ey and also Dr. Hans Koch and his wife, Martha who also have a gallery. Joins Grosz and Schlichter in opposing the Berlin Novembergruppe. | |
| 1922 | 31 | Galerie Nierendorf in Berlin becomes his sole representative. At the urging of Johanna Ey he moves to Düsseldorf. Hans Koch commissions his portrait painted. Dix and Martha practice ballroom dancing together. He is legally attacked for his Girl at the Mirror picture. |
Girl at the Mirror |
Prager Strasse |
Scat Players |
Working Class Boy
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Remembering the |
Dr. Hans Koch
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Frau Dr. Hans Koch
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Salon I
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Suburban Scene
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Sex Murder |
Lion Tamer |
Exotic Brothel |
Worker's Children |
Sunday Walk |
Dedicated to Masochists |
| 1924 | 33 | The relationship with Martha Dix deepens. And Hans Koch seeks a divorce. The Trench is exhibited in the Berlin Academy. Fifty etchings, War, is published by Nierendorf in Berlin. |
![Dix: [Etching] Dead Man](M/dix_the_war_dead_man-folioVsheet2.1924.jpg) Dead Man [From War Folio 5 Sheet 2] |
| 1925 | 34 | Marries Martha, Dr. Hans Koch's ex-wife. Dr. Koch marries Martha's sister, Maria. Birth of Dix's first dauther, Nelly, on 14 June. The lawsuit over Girl at the Mirror ends with Dix being acquitted. Settles in Berlin. |
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| 1926 | 35 | First large solo-exhibition at Nierendorf's and then another one in Munich. |
Girl with Rose |
Self with Muse |
From the Catacombs
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The Art Dealer |
Anna Berber |
Unequal Lovers |
Sylvia von Harden |
Self with Easel |
Hugo Erfurth |
| 1927 | 36 | Moves back to Dresden and takes a chair at the Art Academy. Begins work on the Big City Triptych (Metropolis —see below). Dix's first son, Ursus, is born 11 March. |
| 1928 | 37 | Dix's second son, Jan, is born 10 October. |
| 1929 | 38 | Begins the War Triptych. Takes four years to finish. |
| 1930 | 39 | Visits Paris and Vienna. |
Baby Ursus Dix |
Wife Marth Dix I |
Children at Play |
Match Vendor II |
Painter Franz Radziwill |
Melancholy |
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Metropolis [Triptych] 1927/28 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany |
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| 1931 | 40 | Becomes a full member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin. Takes part in "German Painting and Sculpture" Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NY. |
| 1932 | 41 | Exhibits the War Triptych. Does a fresco at the Museum of Hygiene in Dresden—destroyed by the Nazis in 1934. |
Self woth Smock, Crystal Ball and Palette |
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Detail Central Panel The War Triptych |
| 1933 | 42 | Loses his chair at the Dresden Academy. Ostracised by the Prussian Academy of the arts. |
| 1934 | 43 | Nazis ban Dix from exhibiting. |
| 1935 | 44 | Visits Switzerland and Venice. |
| 1936 | 45 | Moves to Hemmenhofen in the Alps near Lake Constance and the Swis border. This becomes his permenant home. |
| 1937 | 46 | Göbbels orders that 260 of Dix pictures be confiscated. |
Vanitax |
Trench Warfare |
Elisabeth Stüntzner |
Seven Deadly Sins |
The Triumph of Death |
Ranegg in Snow with Ravens |
| 1938 | 47 | Involved in a car accident. He recuperates in Switzerland. |
| 1939 | 48 | Arrested and detained for complicity in the attack on Hitler's life. |
| 1940 | 49 | Dix visits Bohemia. |
| 1942 | 51 | Turns down a contract to paint Von Ribbentrop's portrait. |
| 1945 | 54 | His is conscripted into the Volkssturm and taken prisoner by the French at Colmar. He paints a triptych for the chapel of the prison camp. |
St. Christopher IV |
Self with Red Curtain |
| 1946 | 55 | Returns to Hemmenhofen. Begins religious painting. |
| 1947 | 56 | Paints Erich Heckel who lives near him in the Alps (see below). |
| 1951 | 60 | Numerous Exhibitions marking his 60th Birthday. |
| 1955 | 64 | His daughter Nell dies on 11 January. |
Masks among the Ruins |
Self as Prisoner of War |
The Painter |
Ecce Homo III |
Winter at the Lake |
Dr. Fritz Perls |
| 1966 | 74 | Last visit to Dresden. Receives many honors from both East and West Germany to commemorate his 75th birthday. |
| 1967 | 75 | In November he suffers a stroke which paralizes his left hand. |
| 1969 | 78 | Has another stroke on 19 July; dies on 25 July in the hospital in Singen. He is buried in Hemmenhofen. |
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