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News and Articles on Otto Dix
Restless Energy On Canvas Aug 10, 2009
It was a time of despair, decay and decadence -- "Cabaret," minus the music -- and masters such as Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann captured it in paintings and drawings they called "Sachlichkeit," or the "New Objectivity.". Among the more unforgettable images are Georg Scholz's pipe, cigar and cigarette-puffing fat cats; Dix's teary-eyed, pillowy nude; and Rudolf Schlichter's dark-eyed "Woman With Tie.". (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Art, Genius and Madness Exhibit in ... Apr 12, 2009
Und neues Leben blueht aus dn Ruinen, by Otto Dix, 1946. Guernica (tapestry) by Pablo Picasso, 1976. (Suite101.com)
Baltimore Museum of Art features circus-themed Picasso work Mar 25, 2009
Most of the art depicting circus life focuses on the skill that could be found "on the fringes of bourgeois society." The striking contrast between the untamed, provincial circus life and the rigid nature of the industrial revolution evolved into a peculiar fascination for artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jules Cheret, Otto Dix, Max Pechstein and Ferdinand Leger-whose works, along with several others, are on display at the exhibit. Those who were a part of the circus culture were often penniless... (The Loyola Greyhound, MD)
Baltimore museum puts art under the big top Mar 25, 2009
Otto Dix, another German, used the circus "to underscore the seedy elements of postwar Weimar society," according to the wall text for "The Disdainers of Death" (1922), an etching of squinting, almost contemptuous acrobats. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, famous for his posters advertising risque acts at the Moulin Rouge, also did circus posters but depicted dancers as dour and unsmiling, implicitly criticizing the circus for the toll it took on its performers. (Yahoo News)
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