Otto Dix

(German, 1891–1969)

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Otto Dix

Schwangere Frau, Verso: Skizze einer stehenden Schwangeren, 1921

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Biography

Timeline

1891
Born on December 2 in Untermhaus (near Gera, Thuringia)
1906 - 1910
Apprenticeship in decorative painting with Carl Senff in Gera
1910 - 1914
Attended the Royal Dresden School of Arts and Crafts
1916
Awarded the Iron Cross, II Class
1919
Co-founder of the "Dresden Secession Group 1919"
1922
Studied at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste (State Academy of Art)
1959
Bundesverdienstkreuz (National Order of Merit)
1964
Honorary member of Accademia delle arti del disegno, Florence
1966
Received the Alfred Lichtwark Prize in Hamburg
Received the Martin Andersen-Nexö Prize in Dresdan

Exhibitions

1997
The New Objectivity, Galerie St. Etienne New York, NY
1993
Art & Politics in Weimar Germany, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
1991
Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
1988
Otto Dix, Museum of Modern Art Kamakura, Japan
1987
Schrecken und Hoffnung-Künstler sehen Frieden und Krieg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Munich, Germany
1986
German Realist Drawings of the 1920's, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1985
German Art of the 20th Century, Royal Academy, London, England
Otto Dix, 1891-1969, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Germany
1980
Expressionism: A German Intuition, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Otto Dix zwischen den Kriegen, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Kartons und Druckgraphik 1912-1939, Haus am Waldsee Berlin, Germany