L expressionnisme et otto dix biography

Otto dix took part in the realist current, focusing his paintings on harsh and crude themes. His works were considered offensive to soldiers and the state. During his rise, the Nazi regime confiscated numerous works considered offensive toward Germany and the new regime, taking them from national museums. After the seizure of some 5, works in just two weeks, an exhibition of degenerate art was organized in at the Institute of Archaeology in the Hofgarten Munich with the aim of highlighting the decadence and insanity of the painters on display by denigrating and mocking them read more about so-called degenerate art under the Nazi regime here.

At the end of the exhibition, most of the paintings were burned while the remainder were sold for pennies. Otto Dix, Self-Portrait with Carnation ; oil on paper mounted on panel, His curiosity soon led him to visit numerous exhibitions, in particular, in he had the opportunity to attend a Vincent van Gogh exhibition and was positively impressed.

With the outbreak of World War I , he decided to enlist as a volunteer in the German army fighting in Russia, Poland, France and the Flanders campaigns. Despite his initial enthusiasm he returned from the war very tried and traumatized. He strongly expressed the pain he experienced in the war in his drawings, and it was during this period that he executed sketches pertaining to the wartime world, producing works such as Invalids of War Play Cards and the series consisting of fifty etchings The War In he settled in Dusseldorf where he approached a style of painting related to realism; from this time on, the subjects of his paintings took on a high symbolic value.

The following year, in , he married Martha Koch, then wife of Hans Koch, a doctor and art collector. The painting, after it was purchased and exhibited in the Cologne Museum, was returned to him following negative and impressed comments from critics and the public. In in Mannheim he participated in the exhibition of the new movement, and in he was instead hired to teach at the Dresden Academy.

During his time at the University of Dresden he painted one of his most famous works, The Great City , also known as Metropolis , a triptych where he denounced through deliberately heightened contrast the moral degradation of society in those years. In he was elected a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. As a result, he was also dismissed from all his public positions such as that at the University of Dresden.

Initially, he continued to paint and portray social themes with a strong critical value such as criticism of the National Socialist regime while concealing and masking it by the use of symbols and allegories typical of Christianity. It was during this period that he painted the Triumph of Death Shortly after the Nazis seized power, the artist moved to Lake Constance where he returned to express himself in a classical style by creating landscape themes or portraits, thus abandoning social themes by drawing on Renaissance artists.

In he was captured by the Nazis who accused him of participating in the assassination attempt on Hitler, and he was released the following year. That same year he participated in the first edition of Documenta in Kassel. German painter and printmaker — For the Russian band, see Otto Dix band. Otto Dix photograph by Hugo Erfurth , c. Martha Dix.

Biography [ edit ]. Early life and education [ edit ]. World War I service [ edit ]. Post-war artwork [ edit ]. Later life and death [ edit ]. Restitution of Nazi-looted art [ edit ]. Otto Dix House Museums [ edit ]. See also [ edit ]. Notes [ edit ]. Retrieved 25 January Olaf Peters. New York: Prestel, ISBN The Guardian. ISSN Retrieved 2 January Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the s.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 20 September — via Google Books. The Brooklyn Rail. London: Bloomsbury. Retrieved 5 July What is: Degenerate Art? HENI Talks. Retrieved 7 January — via YouTube. In , Dix was dismissed from his post as a professor of art at the Dresden Academy of Art and was forced into internal exile at Lake Constance, near the Swiss border, where he was permitted to paint landscapes only.

Khan Academy. Tate Gallery. Retrieved 14 June Der Spiegel. Retrieved 17 November Retrieved 16 February Adrien le belge dimanche, 09 octobre Et une petite keestionn adrien t'es belge????

L expressionnisme et otto dix biography

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Je suis aussi en 3e! Et comme vous je trouve que ses oevres sont bizarres. Manuella jeudi, 19 janvier Franchement , arretez de commenter pour dire de la merde. Si les peintures ne vous plaisent pas , peignez vous la gueule! Abdelkaler vendredi, 20 janvier Akpolat dimanche, 22 janvier Quelqun en ce bas-monde. Alors que les peintures d'O. Est-ce plus beau?

Quelque chose de constructif! Paloma samedi, 17 mars Elles expriment tellement de souffrances.. J'aimerais vraiment pouvoir voir une de ses oeuvres en vrai un jour. Si quelqu'un a une info pour cela, je l'en remerci.