Otto Dix

On August 11, 2025 - 20th Century, december 2, German

Otto Dix, December 2, 1891–July 25, 1969, was a German painter and printmaker born in Untermhaus, near Gera. He trained at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts from 1910 to 1914, then served on the Eastern and Western Fronts during the First World War.

After the war Dix resumed his studies at the Dresden Academy and worked in Dresden and Düsseldorf. Associated with the New Objectivity, he painted portraits, urban scenes, and images of war, and in 1924 published Der Krieg, a portfolio of fifty prints.

Dix taught at the Dresden Academy from 1927 until his dismissal by the Nazi government in 1933. He lived at Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance from 1936 until his death; his work is represented in major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Centre Pompidou.

Otto Dix with a Brush, 1929 Oil print, 11.8 × 9.3 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Otto Dix, Sunrise, 1913 Oil on canvas, 20 × 26 in Dresden City Museum

Otto Dix, Prager Street, 1920 Oil and collage on canvas, 39.8 × 31.9 in Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Otto Dix, Mother with Child, 1921 Oil on canvas, 47.2 × 31.9 in Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden

Otto Dix, The Artist's Parents, 1921 Oil on canvas, 44.5 × 39 in Kunstmuseum Basel

Otto Dix, Three Prostitutes on the Street, 1925 Tempera on plywood, 28.7 × 29.5 in Private Collection

Otto Dix, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden, 1926 Oil and tempera on wood, 47.6 × 35 in Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris

Otto Dix, Martha Dix, 1928 Mixed media on wood, 23.6 × 23.4 in Museum Folkwang, Essen

Otto Dix, Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas Attack, from The War, 1924 Etching, aquatint and drypoint, 7.6 × 11.3 in Museum of Modern Art, New York

Otto Dix, Skull, from The War, 1924 Etching, 10.1 × 7.7 in Museum of Modern Art, New York

Otto Dix, Lens Being Bombed, from The War, 1924 Etching and drypoint, 11.8 × 9.6 in Museum of Modern Art, New York

Otto Dix, Crater Field near Dontrien, Lit by Flares, from The War, 1924 Etching and aquatint, 11.4 × 10 in Museum of Modern Art, New York

Otto Dix, Dead Man (St. Clément), from The War, 1924 Etching, aquatint and drypoint, 11.8 × 10.1 in Museum of Modern Art, New York

Otto Dix, Battle-Weary Troops Retreat (Battle of the Somme), from The War, 1924 Etching and aquatint, 7.8 × 11.4 in Museum of Modern Art, New York

Otto Dix, Dead Sentry in the Trench, from The War, 1924 Etching and drypoint, 7.8 × 5.7 in Museum of Modern Art, New York

Otto Dix, Ration Carrying near Pilkem, from The War, 1924 Etching and aquatint, 9.7 × 11.6 in Museum of Modern Art, New York

Otto Dix, Dawn, from The War, 1924 Etching and aquatint, 6.9 × 9.3 in Museum of Modern Art, New York

Otto Dix, Canteen in Haplincourt, from The War, 1924 Etching, 7.8 × 10.2 in Museum of Modern Art, New York

Georges Seurat

On April 27, 2025 - 19th Century, december 2, French

Georges Seurat, December 2, 1859–March 29, 1891, was a French painter and draftsman born in Paris. He studied at the École Municipale de Sculpture et Dessin and at the École des Beaux-Arts, where Henri Lehmann was among his teachers.

After military service, Seurat worked independently and developed paintings and drawings through close study of line, color theory, and optical effects. With Paul Signac and other associates, he became a central figure in Neo-Impressionism; major collections of his work are held by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Musée d’Orsay.

Seurat exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Impressionist exhibition of 1886. He died in Paris at thirty-one, leaving a compact body of paintings, oil studies, and Conté crayon drawings that shaped later Neo-Impressionist practice.

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