Selbstbildnis mit nelke otto dix biography

          Otto Dix painted this exacting self-portrait in , heralding a new approach to painting that he and other artists would fully develop in Germany in the wake.!

          Otto Dix - Artist

          Works in the Collection

          In 1919, Otto Dix returned to Dresden from the fronts of the First World War after four years’ military service.

          Having started his studies at the school of applied arts before the war, he continued them under Otto Gussmann at the Dresden art academy, specializing in decorative painting.

          In this painting we see an incredibly confident young man.

        1. Otto Dix (December 2, - July 25, ) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless depictions of Weimar society and of the brutality of.
        2. Otto Dix painted this exacting self-portrait in , heralding a new approach to painting that he and other artists would fully develop in Germany in the wake.
        3. Otto Dix, Selbstbildnis als Schieß scheibe (Self-Portrait as a Target), , oil on paper, 72 x 51 cm, Otto Dix Foundation, Vienna.
        4. Reproduction of Otto Dix, Self-Portrait with Nude Model (Selbstbildnis mit jüngeren Frau mit Nelke, around , oil on wood, 37 x 30 cm.

          5. Along with Düsseldorf and Berlin, Dresden would remain one of Dix’s main places of activity. Since before the turn of the century, the city had been a center of the contemporary art scene, boasting two prominent, nationally renowned locations in Ernst Arnold’s gallery and Emil Richter's “Kunstsalon”, as well as having outstanding connections to the German art hubs of Berlin, Munich, and Düsseldorf.

          The exhibitions at the gallery and “Kunstsalon” introduced the people of Dresden to Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Expressionism, the painters of the Vienna Secession, Vincent van Gogh, Dadaists, Futurists, and Cubists as well as Pablo Picasso.