Otto Dix

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German artist human painter printmaker

Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker renowned for his harshly realistic and often grotesque depictions of war and Weimar society, making him a central figure of 20th-century Expressionism and New Objectivity.

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Label	Occurrences
Otto Dix canonical	18
Otto Dix was a World War I veteran	1
Otto Dix’s Weimar-era works	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German artist ⓘ human ⓘ painter ⓘ printmaker ⓘ
citizenship	Germany ⓘ
countryOfBirth	German Empire ⓘ
countryOfDeath	West Germany ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1891-12-02 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1969-07-25 ⓘ
educatedAt	Dresden Academy of Fine Arts ⓘ Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden ⓘ
familyName	Dix ⓘ
genre	portrait painting ⓘ social criticism ⓘ war art ⓘ
givenName	Wilhelm Heinrich Otto ⓘ
militaryBranch	German Army ⓘ
movement	Expressionism ⓘ New Objectivity ⓘ Realism ⓘ
name	Otto Dix self-link ⓘ
notableFor	depictions of World War I ⓘ grotesque and harsh realism ⓘ portrayals of Weimar society ⓘ
notableWork	Metropolis (triptych) ⓘ Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden ⓘ Prager Strasse ⓘ The Skat Players ⓘ The Trench ⓘ War (triptych) ⓘ War Cripples ⓘ
occupation	painter ⓘ printmaker ⓘ
participantIn	World War I ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Gera ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Singen ⓘ
position	professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts ⓘ
spouse	Martha Dix ⓘ
style	grotesque exaggeration ⓘ harsh realism ⓘ
subjectMatter	bourgeois society ⓘ prostitutes and nightlife ⓘ social decay in Weimar Germany ⓘ war injuries and veterans ⓘ
wasPersecutedBy	Nazi Germany ⓘ surface form: Nazi regime
workClassifiedAs	degenerate art ⓘ
yearsActive	1910s ⓘ 1920s ⓘ 1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ

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Expressionism → notableProponent → Otto Dix ⓘ

Museum Gunzenhauser → hasLargestCollectionOf → Otto Dix ⓘ

Neue Galerie New York → exhibitsWorkBy → Otto Dix ⓘ

Otto Dix → name → Otto Dix self-link ⓘ

New Objectivity → notableArtist → Otto Dix ⓘ

Weimar culture → notableFigure → Otto Dix ⓘ

Albertinum → hasNotableArtistInCollection → Otto Dix ⓘ

Bernhard Heisig → influencedBy → Otto Dix ⓘ

National Museum of Western Art → hasWorkBy → Otto Dix ⓘ

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto → alsoKnownAs → Otto Dix ⓘ

subject surface form: Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix

Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden → notableStudent → Otto Dix ⓘ

The Trench → creator → Otto Dix ⓘ

War (triptych) → creator → Otto Dix ⓘ

Metropolis (triptych) → creator → Otto Dix ⓘ

Metropolis (triptych) → partOf → Otto Dix ⓘ

this entity surface form: Otto Dix’s Weimar-era works

Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden → creator → Otto Dix ⓘ

The Skat Players → creator → Otto Dix ⓘ

War Cripples → creator → Otto Dix ⓘ

War Cripples → creatorExperience → Otto Dix ⓘ

this entity surface form: Otto Dix was a World War I veteran

Prager Strasse → creator → Otto Dix ⓘ