Otto Dix. Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war.
Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit. Early life and education Otto Dix was born in Untermhaus, Germany, now a part of the city of Gera, Thuringia.
The eldest son of Franz Dix, an iron foundry worker, and Louise, a seamstress who had written poetry in her youth, he was exposed to art from an early age. The hours he spent in the studio of his cousin, Fritz Amann, who was a painter, were decisive in forming young Otto's ambition to be an artist; he received additional encouragement from his primary school teacher.
Between 1906 and 1910, he served an apprenticeship with painter Carl Senff, and began painting his first landscapes. In 1910, he entered the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden, now the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where Richard Guhr was among his teachers.
At that time the school was not a school for the fine arts but rather an academy that concentrated on applied arts and crafts. The majority of Dix's early works concentrated on landscapes and portraits which were done in a stylized realism that later shifted to expressionism. World War I service Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas, etching and aquatin
Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit. Early life and education Otto Dix was born in Untermhaus, Germany, now a part of the city of Gera, Thuringia.
The eldest son of Franz Dix, an iron foundry worker, and Louise, a seamstress who had written poetry in her youth, he was exposed to art from an early age. The hours he spent in the studio of his cousin, Fritz Amann, who was a painter, were decisive in forming young Otto's ambition to be an artist; he received additional encouragement from his primary school teacher.
Between 1906 and 1910, he served an apprenticeship with painter Carl Senff, and began painting his first landscapes. In 1910, he entered the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden, now the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where Richard Guhr was among his teachers.
At that time the school was not a school for the fine arts but rather an academy that concentrated on applied arts and crafts. The majority of Dix's early works concentrated on landscapes and portraits which were done in a stylized realism that later shifted to expressionism. World War I service Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas, etching and aquatin
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