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Otto Dix Biography
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1891 |
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Born: December 2nd, Untermhaus (near Gera, Thuringia)
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1998 - 1906 |
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Attended school in Untermhaus
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1906 - 1910 |
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Apprenticeship in decorative painting with Carl Senff in Gera
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1910 - 1914 |
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Attended the Royal Dresden School of Arts and Crafts
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1916 |
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Awarded the Iron Cross, II Class
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1919 |
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Co-founder of the "Dresden Secession- Group 1919"
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1922 |
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Studied at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste (State Academy of Art)
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1959 |
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Bundesverdienstkreuz (National Order of Merit)
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1964 |
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Honorary member of Accademia delle arti del disegno, Florence
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1966 |
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Received the Alfred Lichtwark Prize in Hamburg
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1966 |
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Received the Martin Andersen-Nexö Prize in Dresdan
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1966 |
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Made honory citizen of Gera
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1968 |
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Recipient, Rembrandt Prize of the Goethe Foundation in Salzburg
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1969 |
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Died: July 25th, Singen, Hohentwiel
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1997
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The New Objectivity, Galerie St. Etienne New York, NY
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1993
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Art & Politics in Weimar Germany, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
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1991
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Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
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1988
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Otto Dix, Museum of Modern Art Kamakura, Japan
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1987
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Schrecken und Hoffnung-Künstler sehen Frieden und Krieg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Munich, Germany
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1986
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German Realist Drawings of the 1920's, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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1985
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German Art of the 20th Century, Royal Academy, London, England
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1985
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Otto Dix, 1891-1969, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Germany
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1980
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Expressionism: A German Intuition, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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1977
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Otto Dix zwischen den Kriegen, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Kartons, Haus am Waldsee Berlin, Germany
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1977
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Otto Dix zwischen den Kriegen, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Kartons und Druckgraphik 1912-1939, Haus am Waldsee Berlin, Germany
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1974
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Realismus und Sachlichkeit, Aspekte deustscher Kunst 1919-1933, National galerie Berlin Berlin, Germany
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1961
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Otto Dix-Das graphische Gesamtwerk 1913-1960, Galerie Meta Nierendorf, Berlin, Germany
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1957
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Otto Dix-Gemälde und Graphik von 1912-1957, Deutsche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
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1950
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Otto Dix-Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Kunstverein Freiburg
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1938
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Otto Dix, Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zurich, Switzerland
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1935
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Group show, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1927
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Otto Dix, Galerie Wolfsberg, Zurich, Switzerland
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1926
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Otto Dix, Galerie Thannhauser Munich, Germany
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1923
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Otto Dix, J.B. Neumann, Berlin, Germany
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| Links to further information |
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