Otto Dix

Neue Galerie New York presents “Otto Dix,” the first solo museum exhibition of works by this major German artist ever held in North America. More than almost any other German painter, Otto Dix (1891-1969) and his works have profoundly influenced the popular notion of the Weimar Republic. His paintings were among the most graphic visual representatives of that period, exposing with unsparing and wicked wit the instability and contradictions of the time.

The exhibition includes more than 100 masterpieces by Dix, and addresses four themes. The first is the artist's traumatic experiences as a soldier in World War I. The second is portraiture, a genre at which he excelled. The third is sexuality, a key theme in the Dix oeuvre. The fourth is religious and allegorical painting. The show includes the work that Dix is best known for—paintings from the so-called “golden Weimar years”—but to contextualize them, it also includes Dix’s work from the early 1920s, as well as his later work, produced as veiled protest against the Third Reich.

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition, this publication was edited by Olaf Peters and includes texts by Peters, Dietrich Schubert, Ernst Kallai, Willi Wolfradt, Karsten Mueller and James Van Dyke. The artist's wartime experiences shaped his shockingly brutal depictions of sexual murders and his paintings of prostitutes, which are the subject of essays in this publication.