Otto Dix

Edited by Olaf PetersTexts by Olaf Peters, Dietrich Schubert, Ernst Kallai, Willi Wolfradt, Karsten Mueller and James Van Dyke More than almost any other German painter, Otto Dix and his works have profoundly influenced the popular notion of the Weimar Republic. His paintings were among the most graphic visual representations of that period, exposing with wicked wit the instability and contradictions of the time. The particular role that Dix played as an artist in the Weimar Republic can only be understood against the backdrop of the painter's experiences during the First World War, from 1914 to 1918. The essay in the present volume by Dietrich Schubert discusses this theme using Dix's war-era self-portraits as examples. The artist's wartime experiences also shaped his shockingly brutal depictions of sexual murders and his paintings of prostitutes, the subject of another of the essays in this publication. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover258 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 20101.1 x 9.7 x 11.5 inchesISBN 9783791350202Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Art History

Otto Dix Exhibition Catalogue

By Rachel McGarry and Tom Rassieur This lavishly illustrated book presents one hundred significant drawings from the 15th to the 21st century, including new discoveries and works by both celebrated masters and others who deserve to be better known. Among the artists represented are Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Guido Reni, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pierre-Paul Prud hon, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Lovis Corinth, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Egon Schiele, Edward Hopper, John Marin, Grant Wood, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Edward Ruscha.Catalogue entries for each drawing include complete documentation, provenance, and bibliography. The text provides important new scholarship and attributions; examines a variety of themes, such as connoisseurship, patronage, materials and techniques, watermarks, and collectors' stamps; and discusses how a work fits into the artist's oeuvre or represents larger developments in artistic movements or trends in artistic production. Hardcover288 pagesBooks & Projects, 201410.3 x 1.4 x 12.6 inchesISBN 9780989371841Museum Collections, Drawings

Master Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Original Price: $70 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Matthias Frehner and Daniel Spanke Kunstmuseum Bern, the oldest museum in Switzerland, turns its gaze toward its own acquisition history in this lavish book that features artistic masterpieces considered worthless by the Nazis, and the stories of how they came to Switzerland. As a result of the Nazi regime’s scorn for modern art, virtually all non-traditional art between 1933 and 1945 was banned in Germany on the grounds that it was un-German, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as “degenerate” artists were dismissed from teaching positions and forbidden to exhibit or to sell their works. This book sheds light on the historical significance and provenance of nearly 525 works by modernist greats, such as Picasso, Chagall, and Kandinsky, which were acquired by the Kunstmuseum Bern through a combination of auctions and private donations. The book traces the fates of artists who suffered under the Nazi regime and who had connections to Switzerland, including Kirchner, Klee and Dix, and contrasts the cultural policies of the Third Reich with those of Switzerland in the same period. Finally, it details the dramatic events and unprecedented efforts that went into preserving invaluable works of art. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover376 pagesPrestel, 20169.2 x 1.4 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783791355368Art History, Museum Studies

Modern Masters: "Degenerate" Art at the Kunstmuseum Bern

Edited by Florence Ostende with Lotte Johnson “At a time when many richly researched tomes are liberally produced on all manner of 20th century avant-garde art and design, this is on my 2019 list as one of the best.” —Design Observer This thrilling book explores the role of cabarets, clubs, and cafés in modern art. These creative spaces were incubators of radical thinking, in which artists could exchange provocative ideas. They were welcoming environments for artists, dancers, designers, writers, and musicians pushing the boundaries of cultural and social norms. Spanning the decades from the 1880s to the 1960s, this unique and multi-faceted illustrated history of alternative artistic spaces covers four continents and includes both famed and little-known sites of the avantgarde. Organized by city, it features painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, film, and archival material emanating from over a dozen cabarets, clubs, and bars that were home to the likes of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Loie Fuller, Josef Hoffmann, Giacomo Balla, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Theo Van Doesburg, Jeanne Mammen, Jacob Lawrence, Ramón Alva de la Canal, and Ibrahim El-Salahi. It includes photographs of the interiors of the Chat Noir in Paris, the Café L’Aubette in Strasbourg and the Mbari Club in Nigeria; a cocktail menu from the Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna; a 1930s night club map of Harlem; posters and invitations advertising performances at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and Mexico City’s Café de Nadie; and countless artworks that emerged from these spaces conveying the energy and excitement of the time. A series of enlightening essays explore how each space fostered and stimulated new forms of artistic expression. Hardcover344 pages with 400 color illustrationsPrestel Publishing, 20199.4 x 1.3 x 12.4 inchesISBN 9783791358888Avant-Garde, Dadaism, Cabaret

Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art

Printed on archival paper, 8 x 12 inches Mounted on a 14 3/4 x 16 5/8 inch matte.Designed and printed at Thornwillow Press in Newburgh, New York under the direction of Luke Ives Pontifell. Limited Edition Print, Painting, Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) Movement

Otto Dix: Half-Nude, 1926 [Print]

Original Price: $15.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Otto Dix (1891-1969), Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber, 1925 Exhibition poster for "Otto Dix" 26.75 x 38.75 inches

Otto Dix Exhibition Poster

Otto Dix (1891-1969) Portrait of the Art Dealer Alfred Flechtheim, 1926

Otto Dix: Portrait of the Art Dealer Alfred Flechtheim [Postcard]

Otto Dix (1891-1969) Liegende auf Leopardenfell (Reclining Woman on Leopard Skin), 1927

Otto Dix: Reclining Woman on Leopard Skin [Postcard]

Otto Dix (1891-1969) Self-Portrait with Nude Model, 1923

Otto Dix: Self-Portrait with Nude Model [Postcard]

By Otto DixOtto Dix (1891–1969) is considered one of the true lions of 20th-century art, a man who established himself as an uncompromising artist that refused to temper how he rendered the realities that he witnessed. Dix’s early works often depict the true brutalities of the WWI battlefields and trenches he served in for over three years, as well as the decadent underworld of 1920s Berlin.With the publication of this first of three volumes of an extensive selection of letters, the most comprehensive collection of Otto Dix texts at last comes into print in English. Encompassing well over 1,000 letters, and ranging from friends and family to other artists, collectors, colleagues, critics & biographers, the letters offer a personal portrait of six decades of the 20th century.Dix himself was a controversial figure throughout his life, and while he claimed never to write self-testimonials, the artist had much to say about the widest range of subjects in his private correspondence. Therein, we discover much about a figure who exhibited a gruff, often abrasive persona to many, a man who depicted war with unrepentant brutality yet who could at the same time pen the most romantic, schmaltzy letters to his wife and sketch amusing caricatures to his daughter.Following his experiences throughout WWI, Dix immediately took up with the dadaists in Dresden in 1919 and became an established figure as part of the Sezession. A few years later, after his first portrait commission in Dusseldorf in 1922, Dix met his future wife, Martha, with whom he would go on to raise three children, and who is one of the principle correspondents in this volume of letters. Some of his most significant work was produced in the 1920s, including his powerful Krieg (War) portfolio, for which the Nazis branded him a “degenerate artist” and forced him to resign his professorship in 1933. Condemned to internal exile, Dix thereafter resided in Hemmenhofen, in the extreme southwest part of Germany. Twelve years later, he would suffer further indignities from the Nazis when ordered to join the Volkssturm in 1945. Dix ended up in a prisoner-of-war camp, again a survivor of a second harrowing cataclysm. After his release, from 1946 onwards, the painter lived between East and West Germany, never truly at home in either ideologically, yet he remained prolific, continuing to produce art until the end of his life, having lived through two World Wars as well as the “Cold War.”​This first volume covers the period 1904–1927 and the heart of it is a selection of Dix’s postcards from the WWI front written to his school friend in Dresden, Helene Jakob, a form of artistic reportage of uncanny power. Recipient of the Die schönsten Deutschen Bücher shortlist in 2014, Dix’s letters will prove to be of considerable interest to art historians, scholars of Expressionism, and aficionados of Dix, all of whom will encounter the artist as never before.Hardcover284 pages Contra Mundum Press, 20165.98 x 0.75 x 9.02 inchesISBN 9781940625188History, Literary Letters

Letters, Vol. 1 (Otto Dix)

Exhibition notecard for "Neue Sachlichkeit / New Objectivity" February 20—May 26, 2025 Otto Dix (1891-1969)Dr. Mayer-Hermann, 1926 1 notecard and envelope5.75 x 8.75 inches

Otto Dix: Neue Sachlichkeit Exhibition Notecard [Single Card]

von Dietrich Schubert Das Arbeiterkind Otto Dix aus Gera/Elster war ein Jasager und der Sinnlichkeit leidenschaftlich ausgeliefert. Das betonte Dix, der seit Sommer 1927 als Lehrer an der Kunstakademie Dresden wirkte, in einem Brief von 1930/32 an Werner Haftmann. Und mit dem Dichter Alfred Döblin hätte er sagen können: „Die Dinge sind einzigartig …“ Aus diesen Gründen verachtete Dix die Maler, welche die sichtbare Wirklichkeit abwerten, und zwar weil sie damit – im Sinne der Philosophie Friedrich Nietzsches – den Wert des Lebens abwerten. Bereits vor dem Krieg ‘14/18 lasen der junge Dix und seine Freunde statt Arthur Schopenhauer den lebensbejahenden Philosophen Nietzsche, der Schopenhauers Pessimismus überwunden hatte und im Kunstschaffen die Gegenkraft gegen den Willen zur Verneinung des Lebens sah, nämlich das Anti-Nihilistische par excellence.Als herausragend in Dix‘ Œuvre bewerten wir die Kriegsdarstellungen „Schützengraben“ von 1923 (verschollen), das Triptychon „Der Krieg“ 1929–1932 (heute in Dresden) und den Zyklus der 50 Radierungen, die Dix mit dem Galeristen Karl Nierendorf zum Anti-Kriegsjahr 1924 realisierte, mit denen er Protokolle der ‚Hölle‘ seiner Zeit als Spiegel vorhielt. Diese sind, wie W. Haftmann bereits schrieb, die bedeutendsten Kriegs-Darstellungen in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts; ein Exemplar befindet sich im Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne. Entgegen heutiger Meinung war Otto Dix keineswegs nur ein Protagonist der sog. „Neuen Sachlichkeit“ (Ausstellung in Mannheim 1925), die übrigens wieder in Mode ist, sondern er übertraf und entgrenzte im Großteil seines Kunstschaffens deren simple und glatte Formen in gekonnter Weise und voll Sarkasmus in seinen Figurenbildern, in Porträts und in weiblichen Aktbildern mit den Prinzipien des kritischen Verismus. Malerei kritischer Feststellung war die Formel des Dichters Carl Einstein für diese Kunst. Und Willi Wolfradt konnte gültig schreiben: „Dix ist eine einzige Obstruktion gegen das subtile Bildchen, das so tut als ob nichts gewesen ist." Hardcover464 Seiten, 159 SW- und 304 FarbabbildungenText in German Michael Imhofverlag, 20249.45 x 11.42 inchesISBN 9783731914211Monograph, Otto Dix

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Master Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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Otto Dix Exhibition Poster

Otto Dix: Portrait of the Art Dealer Alfred Flechtheim [Postcard]

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Otto Dix: Self-Portrait with Nude Model [Postcard]

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