Otto Dix und die Schweiz

Stephan Kunz

ISBN 10: 3039422413 / ISBN 13: 9783039422418

Published by Scheidegger & Spiess Jun 2024, 2024

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Neuware -Otto Dix (1891-1969) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wegen seines engagierten Realismus von den Nationalsozialisten verfemt, verlor er 1933 seine Professur an der Kunstakademie Dresden, seine Werke galten als «entartete Kunst» und durften nicht mehr ausgestellt werden. Dix zog sich an den Bodensee in die Nähe der Schweizer Grenze zurück und schuf zwischen 1934 und 1945 vorwiegend Landschaftsbilder, welche als Ausdruck einer «inneren Emigration» mit ihrer geradezu unheimlichen Leere das Unbehagen in der Zeit vermitteln.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Otto Dix und die Schweiz
• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess Jun 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3039422413
• ISBN 13: 9783039422418
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

Otto Dix (1891-1969) is considered one of the most significant German artists of the 20th century. Because of his dedicated realism abused by the National Socialists, he lost his professorship at the Dresden Art Academy in 1933, his works were considered "degenerate art" and could no longer be exhibited. Dix retreated to Lake Constance near the Swiss border and created between 1934 and 1945 mainly landscape pictures, which convey discomfort in time as an expression of an "inner emigration" with their almost eerie emptiness.

Switzerland was an important reference point in Otto Dix's painterly and drawing-like work in the 1930s. The artist's artistic and biographical connections to Switzerland have been barely noticed so far. This volume now deals with the subject in depth for the first time. The contributions illuminate contemporary exhibitions in Zurich and Schaffhausen and works sales in that economically and politically burdened time. At the centre are works by Otto Dix, which were created at the end of the 1930s during a longer spa stay in the Engadine.