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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
SYDNEY. The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents today War: The Prints of Otto Dix, on view through 26 October 2008. Der Krieg [War] 1924 is a series of 51 etched prints that will be showcased in the exhibition, documenting Otto Dix's experiences in the First World War. It has been described as one of the most powerful and the most unpleasant anti-war statements in modern art.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
... including several of wounded soldiers evoking the grotesque canvases of the Weimar painter Otto Dix. Smoke and irregular explosions (courtesy of G. Lucas Crane, the credited “noise artist”) keep the audience disoriented. You couldn’t call this dense stew linear. But then, aside from the imaginings of politicians, generals and arms manufacturers, war rarely is. What you can call this production...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
... I especially liked seeing a few paintings of animals by the Expessionist Franz Marc, portraits by Otto Dix, and a special exhibition of anti-Fascist, anti-Nazi political photomontages published in a French newspaper in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Museum Ludwig was relatively empty compared to the rest of the central city, which was packed with people. We stopped for coffee at a nearby...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
... of the early twentieth century, including Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Erich Heckel, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, and Wassily Kandinsky. The Expressionist groups Der Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke, and the post-war trend of Neue Sachlichkeit, are all represented by a range of vigorous works. Impassioned Imageswill be presented in the art center's Prints and Drawings Galleries, and this...
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Dialog International (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
... his most enigmatic - and his most melancholy. Like the other painters represented in the exhibit - Otto Dix, Kirchner, Christian Schad, and Georg Grosz, - Beckmann's artistic sensibility was shaped by the horrors of the Great War. In Self-Portrait with Horn Beckmann is no longer the self-confident, aloof artist in the tuxedo. He is in a strange dressing gown that has a timeless, harlequin-like...
