Culture shock, German-style Jul 5, 2008
It was only in the mid-1980s that art historians became comfortable with the idea that artists such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and George Grosz could be seen as a second wave of Expressionists, despite their stylistic differences. This was partly due to writers such as Donald E. Gordon beginning to analyse Expressionism as a set of shared ideas and attitudes, rather than a particular moment in time. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Music: Puppets enliven Metropolitan production of opera 'Satyagraha' Apr 15, 2008
They resembled the figures of the German Expressionist artists Otto Dix and George Grosz, come to life. While lasting only a few minutes, the scene stands as perhaps the most striking moment in the Met's production of "Satyagraha," Philip Glass's 1979 opera about Mohandas K. Gandhi's years in South Africa. (International Herald Tribune)
Background: 'The Antiques Rogue Show' Jan 29, 2008
The list of copied artists includes the painters LS Lowry and Samuel Peploe; sculptures came from Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Otto Dix, Horatio Greenough, Man Ray, Brancusi, and Gauguin. From antiquity there were purported Roman silver and gold artifacts with original metals, probably from coins, Assyrian stone reliefs and Anglo-Saxon jewellery. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
'Devotional' prints take journey through history Jan 24, 2008
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Georg Baselitz and the destructive impulse Nov 24, 2007
An uncanny premonition of the worst horrors of World War I fighting and of the victims of the totalitarian regimes it eventually spawned comes out in the work of Otto Dix and others. The early paintings of Baselitz tie in with that legacy. (International Herald Tribune)
Caustic postwar art, through German eyes Nov 6, 2007
e Maillol in Paris through Feb. 4 examines this art, yet its title, "Allemagne, les Ann?es Noires," or "Germany: The Black Years," makes a different point: that the most prominent of these war artists - Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Ludwig Meidner and Jacob Steinhardt - were all German. True, some French painters, Fernand L. (International Herald Tribune)
Cologne Cardinal Apologizes for Using Term Linked to Nazis to Describe Art Sep 19, 2007
The Nazis destroyed canvasses and persecuted artists such as Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann. They staged the ``Entartete Kunst'' or ``Degenerate Art'' exhibition in 1937 in Munich, where the work of those artists was hung -- in some cases askance and unframed -- and mocked in slogans scrawled on the walls. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
CBS 2 At The Met: Made In Germany Aug 6, 2007
Artist Otto Dix was a soldier in 1914 when he painted this portrait of his first love, Marga Kumma, a painting that may remind you of a family pet. Rewald explained, "You see her cat-like features, her chin and here this is a ribbon that comes from her hair, it is magnificent!". (CBS New York, NY)
Alberto Sughi: 1946 to Present Jul 26, 2007
He therefore undertakes a constant dialogue with artists who have expressed this crisis, from Bacon to Sutherland, and to Hopper, with the oneiric dimension of Otto Dix, or the early Grosz, or of Beckmann ... At the beginning of the 70s, Sughi moved from the city of Cesena to the nearby hills of Carpineta and started work on the cycle La cena, a clear metaphor for middle class society, containing a certain Germanic realism, resembling the works of George Grosz and Otto Dix, enveloped in almost... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Showgirls and streetwalkers Mar 8, 2007
The first group are all called "Vlada", followed by "Madame Bijou", "street walkers", "Otto Dix" and "Pigalle at night after the party" ... I surmise they are the Otto Dix section ... One of the Otto Dix chicks whacks me with her riding crop. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Cabaret Berlin's Doomed Characters Displayed at New York's Met: Interview Jan 31, 2007
On view until Feb. 19, are some 100 portraits, many by Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, George Grosz and Christian Schad. Seated in her cluttered Met office, curator Sabine Rewald discussed her selection while exuding that gaunt look and caustic charm so often exhibited by her disturbed cast of characters. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Glitter And Doom: German Portraits From The 1920's Jan 14, 2007
The horror of warfare was documented in "Skat Players" by Otto Dix in 1920 ... In another painting by Otto Dix from 1926, called Doctor Mayer-Hermann. (CBS 2, NY)
German portraits of despair at Met Dec 22, 2006
Artists Rights Society, New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Otto Dix's portrait of the art dealer Johanna Ey ... Otto Dix stands out as the most incisive observer, well served by his consummate mastery as a draftsman, which is one of the revelations of the unusual show. (International Herald Tribune)
The Joke's Over: Memories of Hunter S. Thompson Nov 25, 2006
Steadman, an English cartoonist in the grotesque tradition of George Grosz and Otto Dix, was put together with Thompson in 1970, when the latter's career in conventional journalism came apart while covering the Kentucky Derby. The resulting article was a stream-of-consciousness ramble, portraying an event that saw itself as a pillar of Southern gentlemanly tradition as a repellent racist debauch. (Sydney Morning Herald)
A new exhibit highlights cultural decadence of Weimar Germany Nov 24, 2006
Presented in seven galleries devoid of fanfare or froufrou, "Glitter and Doom" contains more than 100 paintings and drawings by 10 artists, prominent among them George Grosz, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter and Karl Hubbuch, and, most conspicuously, the unrelentingly savage Otto Dix and his magnificent other, Max Beckmann. With Dix represented by 53 works and Beckmann holding his own at 17, the two preside over this exhibition like Picasso and Braque, except that they are equals. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Grit and Glitz at the Met Nov 16, 2006
The exhibit features portraits by 10 artists: Max Beckmann, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch, Ludwig Meidner, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlicter, Georg Scholz, and Gert Wollheim ... Yet amid this gentle opening, the viewer gets a glimpse of the shocking representations to come: sandwiched between unconventional family portraits and unorthodox preparations of the picture plane, is Otto Dix's "Cartoon for the Painting 'The Three Wenches,'1926. Here we are presented... (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Gonzo, but not forgotten Nov 6, 2006
And true subversives like George Grosz and Otto Dix from the 1930s, the ones who were really up against it. Anna Mundow, a freelance journalist living in Central Massachusetts, is a correspondent for the Irish Times. (Boston Globe)
- Adrian Searle picks his Turner prize favourite Oct 3, 2006
But the more I am meant to pick up the references in Warren's art - Giacometti, Degas' Little Dancer Aged 14, Otto Dix - the less interested I become. There's too much rhetoric. (Guardian Unlimited)
Showcasing visual side of 'Dada' Aug 14, 2006
Otto Dix honed a grotesque style of painting to fit the horrific reality of a Berlin filled with the maimed survivors of World War I. Card-Playing War Cripples (1920) pictures three legless men with wooden legs to match those of their chairs. One has a wooden arm as well. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Seriously Funny Jun 19, 2006
The show is an elliptical tale of six cities: Zurich, where the leading artist was the collagist and sculptor Hans Arp; Cologne, the base of the Surrealist-to-be Max Ernst; Berlin, featuring the satirists George Grosz and Otto Dix; Hannover, the home of the single most substantial artist to emerge from Dada, Kurt Schwitters; Paris, dominated by the poets, in particular Andr; Breton, who would exterminate Dada by folding it into Surrealism; and New York, where the wartime presence of Duchamp, and... (New Yorker)
Art Exhibit: Come to Dada Feb 20, 2006
In Berlinby 1918 a starving metropolis filled with crippled veterans and street-fighting political armiesthe movement took the form of enraged, but oddly beautiful, drawings and paintings of militarists and whores by George Grosz and Otto Dix. In Cologne, Ernst (who later became a surrealist) was the main man. (Newsweek--Entertainment)
Art | Behind the mustache: Landmark survey of serious Dada Feb 19, 2006
Dada's protest character emerges powerfully in the Berlin section, especially in the works of George Grosz and Otto Dix. Grosz was a devastating satirist whose denunciations of bloated, lecherous industrialists and war profiteers, and his empathy for crippled war veterans, seem uncannily topical today. (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
