 Otto Dix, Group Portrait, Guenther Franke, Paul Ferdinand Schmidt,
and Karl Nierendorf, 1923, oil on canvas mounted on wood, 15
3/4 x 29 1/8".
NEW YORK
Through
August 30
Curated by Olaf PetersThe Neue Galerie adds to its
roster of distinguished exhibitions with the first American solo museum
show of Otto Dix (1891–1969). The German artist’s paintings and works on
paper, which traverse Expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit, and
Berlin Dada, give a vivid and terrifying image of trench warfare (which
the artist had experienced firsthand, having enlisted at the outbreak of
World War I) and illuminate the queasy yet fascinating milieu of the
Weimar Republic. (Paintings like The Dancer Anita Berber, 1925,
contribute mightily to the come-to-the-cabaret image-repertoire of
Weimar "decadence.”) The exhibition includes more than 150 works and is
accompanied by lectures, as well as a film series.
Tomado de:
http://www.artforum.com/museums/
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