#otto dix
On view now, artist Yael Bartana’s 16mm film installation Entartete Kunst Lebt! (Degenerate Art Lives!) is a statement about war built upon the work German painter and printmaker Otto Dix. Under the Nazis, Dix’s art was condemned as “degenerate,” a term used to describe modernism, which they considered Jewish and therefore perverse. Through stop-motion, Bartana brings Dix’s soldiers to life in her retelling, to rebuke the practice of censoring art as corrupt, asserting defiantly that “degenerate” art survives.
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Fig. 2. ‘Otto Dix’ drawing style was altered noticeably in his last self-portraits. Self portrait with black collar (1968, d), small self-portrait (1968, e), self-portrait with a hand (1968, f) and self-portrait as a skull (1968, not shown) all share the absence of a resemblance to the painter. This is substantially different from the self-portraits Dix painted in 1957 (b), 1964 ©, and 1967 whose similitude is very close to the photographs showing Dix at the respective dates (a) (copyright VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2007).
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‘I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time.’
Otto Dix, The Dancer Anita Berber, 1925
Otto Dix (about 11 years old, standing at the right) with his brother and sisters, ca 1902 - Studio Oscar Spoerl [+]
from Jeschke Van Vliet
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Os pais
“Mas apesar das tensões, das zangas, dos ciúmes, havia entre eles uma relação forte, algo que se lhes impunha, talvez até contra a vontade de um e de outro. Seria a atração dos contrários, porque eram diferentes em quase tudo, no físico (minha mãe pequenina, meu pai bastante alto), no temperamento (contemplativo, o do meu pai, frenético, o de minha mãe), na atitude (empreendedora, profundamente burguesa, a de minha mãe, desprendida, senhorial, a do meu pai). Casaram-se à revelia dos meus avós, quase clandestinamente, apadrinhados pelo Marquês. Só depois de eu nascer se reconciliaram com as famílias.”
Manuel Alegre, “Alma”; pintura de Otto Dix.
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Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969), Zerschmetterter Baum [Shattered Tree], 1941, oil and tempera on panel, 85 x 64.5 cm
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Shock Troops Advance under Gas (Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor) from The War (Der Krieg), 1924
etching, aquatint, drypoint
Otto Dix
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Apotheosis (Apotheose) from the portfolio Nine Woodcuts (Neun Holzschnitte), 1919
woodcut
Otto Dix
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