Otto Dix (German Artist): 3D Gallery

Otto Dix

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and print-maker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Wiemar republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.

Sylvia von Harden

This is a portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden, 1926, mixed media on wood.

Otto Dix informational video

This video tells you about Otto Dix. Whether it's his time as a soldier or as an artist.

War Cripples

Another piece of work by Otto Dix. It shows what seems to be crippled ex-soldiers.

An educational video on 'The War Painting'

The Trench

The Trench (German: Der Schützengraben), but earlier known as Das Kriegsbild ("The War Picture") or simply Der Krieg ("The War"), was an oil painting by German artist Otto Dix. The large painting was made from 1920 to 1923, one of several anti-war works by Dix in the 1920s inspired by his experience of trench warfare in the First World War.

The Skat Players

One of Dix’s early post-war paintings, which displays the harsh reality of the Weimar Germany in the style of the New Objectivity movement, is The Skat Players painted in 1920. After Germany’s defeat in the First World War, the day-to-day life turned into a grotesque display of mutilated, shell-shocked, and depraved members of society. Dix’s way of getting across his belief of the degrading post-war life was through usage of less symbolism, and more realistic notions, specific for the New Objectivity. The artist wanted to make a clear statement in regard to the damage and destruction the war can do to society, treating the matter in a detached way, showing both a satirical attitude and a serious side of things.

In this painting, Dix presents the war as a gamble, a skat game between the crippled and deformed soldiers, expressing the shocking new reality of that time. Three disfigured soldiers represent the new stereotype of the Weimar Republic: the unemployable and miserable war veterans that are disposed by the working class based society after serving for their country. Without a purpose or a place in life, viewed only as a token of the German defeat, the only thing left for the veterans is playing cards and passing time with fellow soldiers.

Metropolis

Metropolis (German: Großstadt) is a 1928 painting by the German artist Otto Dix. It is a triptych with three nighttime city scenes from the Weimar Republic. The left panel shows a crippled war veteran approaching a group of prostitutes. The central panel shows the interior of a nightclub with a brass band, a dancing couple and scantily clad women with visible jewelry, as well as one person of ambiguous gender. The right panel shows a group of high-class prostitutes dressed in furs, ignoring the war cripple they walk by.

The themes of the painting are femininity, decadence and sexuality in the modern city. The art professor Marsha Meskimmon has written how the war veterans are "shown weakened in every way by the aggressive sexuality of Weimar women. Both the economic and sexual bargaining power rests with the demonized whores of modernity."

Interview with Leander Dix

Leander Dix is the grandson of Otto Dix. I found this interview when I typed in: "otto dix painter" into YouTube.

The Music Lesson

The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]

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Otto Dix (German Artist)