The Museum of Fine Arts in Bern restituted two works by Dix, “Dompteuse” and “Dame in der Loge” to the heirs of the Jewish art collectors Ismar Littmann and Paul Schaefer
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Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.
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culture · German painter and printmaker (1891–1969) · painter · Esperantist · university teacher · draftsperson · sculptor · printmaker · graphic artist · visual artist · lithographer · artist · also Otto Dix, o. dix, Dix
Born 2 December 1891 · Died 25 July 1969 · Q153104
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2013· 1 entry
In the house where the artist lived with his family and where he worked from 1936 to 1969, in Hemmenhofen, south Germany
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2012· 1 entry
Among the 1500+ paintings hidden away by the son of Hitler's looted-art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt
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1991· 1 entry
At the 100th anniversary of Dix's birth, in the 18th-century house where he was born and grew up, at Mohrenplatz 4 in the city of Gera, as a museum and art gallery
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1969· 2 entries
Died 1969-07-25.
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“Nobody wants to look at it. What is it all supposed to mean.. ..the old whores and the old, worn out women, and of life is cares?. .It doesn't make anybody happy. No gallery wants to exhibit it.[ his work]. Why do you even bother to paint it.”
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Lichtwark Prize (1967).
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Received the Hans Thoma Prize and in 1968 the Rembrandt Prize of the Goethe Foundation in Salzburg
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Gera (1966).
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1964· 1 entry
Won Medal Carl von Ossietzky (1964).
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1959).
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Was awarded the Grand Merit Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz) and in 1950, he was unsuccessfully nominated for the National Prize of the GDR
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1939· 1 entry
Was arrested on the trumped-up charge of being involved in a plot against Hitler (see Georg Elser), but was later released
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1928· 1 entry
One of the German Art Society's founding members and most prominent writer Bettina Feistel-Rohmeder pilloried both Dix personally and the depiction of German society that Metropolis offered, in the Society's art bulletin
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1927· 2 entries
Dix declared, "The object is primary and the form is shaped by the object
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“The object is primary and the form is shaped by the object.”
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1925· 2 entries
Which featured works by George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Karl Hubbuch, Rudolf Schlichter, Georg Scholz and many others
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The then-mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer, canceled the purchase of the painting and forced the director of the museum to resign
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1924· 1 entry
Joined the Berlin Secession; by this time he was developing an increasingly realistic style of painting that used thin glazes of oil paint over a tempera underpainting, in the manner of the old masters
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1920· 1 entry
Met George Grosz and, influenced by Dada, began incorporating collage elements into his works, some of which he exhibited in the first Dada Fair in Berlin
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1919· 1 entry
During a period when his work was passing through an expressionist phase
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1914· 1 entry
Studied at Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden (1909–1914).
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1910· 1 entry
Entered the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden, now the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where Richard Guhr was among his teachers
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-12-02.
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