Otto Dix Biography

The provocateur and professor, soldier and dandy, family man and lover, Otto Dix was great and multifaceted, and as a person and as an artist. The artist owned various styles in the visual arts. The young man in Dresden was still influenced by the old masters, as well as expressionists, first of all, Vincent Van Gogh. Dix left the First World War in the year in the year and spent three years at the front, was awarded awards for courage.

The war imposed an indelible mark on his work. Not a single other artist of the age of the age of the age of Great processed his own trench experience as directly, gloomy and impressive in paintings as he is. Otto Dix, photo: Kunsmsammlung NRW returning from the war, Otto Dix changed his artistic style towards an increasing, but very exaggerated realism. Dix portraited contemporaries, accurately noting and mercilessly emphasizing their ugly sides, finding his motives on the street and in brothels.

This direction of realism is called Verism from the Italian "true", and Otto Dix is ​​considered one of his most famous representatives. The young, talented and beggar, neither with painting nor Otto’s graphics, Dix could not earn a living. She owned the art gallery in Dusseldorf. A colorful lady, whose career began with her and fashionable Cafe’s creative intelligentsia, was delighted with the artist with Dandy's manners and decided to promote him.

Therefore, in the fall of the year, Otto Dix moved to Dusseldorf. Here he met not only other art dealers, but also with his future wife Marta - a rich woman who will give birth to three children. Here, recognition came to him. The painting "Trench" approved Dix as an artist, but also provoked a widely discussed scandal: too cruel, too gloomy, many of the canvas with the corpses of soldiers shown on it were considered.

Without the slightest hint of heroism. Dix made himself the reputation of Enfant Terrible by the German art scene of that time. Triptih "War". Hiekel later in Berlin, he again changed his style and became one of the masters of the analytical and sober "new materiality", one of the most influential artistic movements of the Weimar Republic. In the year, Dix returned to Dresden already as a professor at the Academy of Arts.

In addition, he created a triptych “war” - a masterpiece, continuing in its structure and topic the picture of the “trench”. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in the year, Otto Dix lost his professor. The new regime regarded his work as a sabotage, an attempt to discredit the heroism of German soldiers and included the painting “Trench” in the year among the exhibits of the exhibition of the so -called “degenerative art”, as Nazi propaganda called works of contemporary art that did not correspond to the ideology of the Third Reich.

For some time, Otto Dix was even arrested by the Nazis. After that, he went into internal emigration: he moved to live in southern Germany and as an artist completely disappeared from public life. In the post -war period, Otto Dix was in good account in both parts of Germany. Sorry, ”he emphasized. At the end of his life, Otto Dix returned to expressionism, often turned to biblical plots.

Art historians, however, consider the late period of his work less significant than the early, when he created his merciless masterpieces for the anger of the day. Dix died in Otto. Numerous exhibitions of his works in Germany and in other countries testify to his unchanged popularity and still. See also:.