Flanders otto dix biography

Otto Dix may have had more influence than just about any other German artist in molding public perceptions of the German Empire in the 1920s.

Otto Dix. Corpse in Barbed Wire (Flanders) (Leiche im ... - MoMA

Otto Dix’s paintings are important components of the “New Objectivity” school, which also captivated Max Beckmann and George Grosz in the mid-1920s. His first big subjects, as a war vet traumatized by his ordeals in WWI, were maimed soldiers such as in Otto Dix’s The War (1932) painting, but towards the prime of his career, he also portrayed nudes, brothels, and often ruthlessly sarcastic pictures of intellectuals from Germany.

 

 

A Biography of Otto Dix

NationalityGerman
Date of Birth2 December 1891
Date of Death25 July 1969
Place of BirthUntermhaus, Germany

In the early 1930s, Otto Dix’s paintings grew even gloomier and more metaphorical, and he became a Nazi target.

As a result, he progressively turned away from societal issues, focusing on landscapes and Chris Flanders, 1934 - Otto Dix - WikiArt.org REG