NEW YORK – Neue Galerie New York shows “Otto Dix,” the first one-man museum exhibition of works by German artist Otto Dix ever held in North America. Open through March 11, 2010. The show will contain over 100 masterpieces from the United States, Canada, and Europe, and will fill all the exhibition spaces in the museum. It will run through August 30 at the Neue Galerie before travelling to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where it will be on view from September 20, 2010, to January 2, 2011.
More than almost any other German painter, Otto Dix and his works have profoundly influenced the popular notion of the Weimar Republic. His paintings were among the most graphic visual representatives of that period, exposing with unsparing and wicked wit the instability and contradictions of the time. This exhibition will include the paintings that Dix is best know for—paintings from the so-called “golden Weimar years“—but to contextualize them, it will also include Dix’s work from the early 1920s, as well as his later more allegorical work, produced as veiled protest against the Third Reich.
The exhibition is organized by Dr. Olaf Peters, Professor of Modern Art History and Art Theory at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Dr. Peters is a distinguished scholar in the field of 20th-century German art, and the author of many books on that subject.
CATALOGUE
A fully illustrated catalogue, published by Prestel, will accompany the exhibition. With new research and fresh interpretations from leading scholars on Dix and the art of the Weimar Republic, the publication will be an indispensable contribution to the study of the Weimar era.
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Image: Otto Dix (1891-1969), Portrait of the Lawyer Dr. Hugo Simons, 1925. Tempera and oil on wood, 75 x 60 cm (29 1/2 x 23 5/8 in.). The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn