Artist
Otto Dix 1891 – 1969
About the work
In 1938, Dix spent a few weeks in the Engadine. His experience of the high Alps resulted in seven paintings. In the valley near Pontresina with the Bernina Group, Dix captures the Swiss Central Alps: dead trees in the foreground and in the background above blue valleys the Bernina massif covered in snow and ice. It is the barren world in which Friedrich Nietzsche spends the summer months in the 1880s - the philosopher whose writings inspired the young painter at the beginning of the century.
Year
1938
Material / Technique
Oil on cloth lined board mounted on hardboard
Signature
sign. u. dat. u. l.: 19Mgr.38
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Museum Gunzenhauser
Inventory no.
GUN-M-0107
Access
2003 Stiftung Gunzenhauser
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz-Museum Gunzenhauser, property of Stiftung Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz
Photo
Archiv Museum Gunzenhauser
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Status
Not on display
Exhibitions
- Otto Dix. Maler, Zeichner, Graphiker, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 01.09.1949 – 02.10.1949
- 300 x DIX. Werke von 1912 bis 1969, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Museum Gunzenhauser 29.04.2018 – 02.09.2018
- Lebenswege. Künstler:innen zwischen den Systemen, Museum Gunzenhauser 05.03.2023 – 2.7.2023
Catalog raisonné
Löffler 1938/13
Year
1938
Material / Technique
Oil on cloth lined board mounted on hardboard
Signature
sign. u. dat. u. l.: 19Mgr.38
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Museum Gunzenhauser
Inventory no.
GUN-M-0107
Access
2003 Stiftung Gunzenhauser
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz-Museum Gunzenhauser, property of Stiftung Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz
Photo
Archiv Museum Gunzenhauser
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Status
Not on display
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