Artist
Otto Dix 1891 – 1969
About the work
After training as a machine gunner, Otto Dix spent the war years mainly at the front in France and Flanders. Despite the terrible experiences that haunt him throughout his life, he draws a sober balance years later: »The war was a horrible thing, but still something powerful. I could not miss it under any circumstances! You have to have seen man in this unleashed state to know anything about man.« Important documents of his war experiences are hundreds of drawings and numerous gouaches with harrowing depictions of battles and battlefields, of prisoners, the wounded and the dead.
Year
1915 – 1918
Material / Technique
Gouache on paper
Signature
sign. u. l.: DIX; rücks. bez.: Nächtliche Szene, 175, 41 MR 120,6
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Museum Gunzenhauser
Inventory no.
GUN-Z-0158
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
- Halbwelt auf Papier. Dix und Felixmüller aus einer deutschen Privatsammlungen, Schleswig, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf 04.06.2000 – 13.08.2000
- Halbwelt auf Papier. Dix und Felixmüller aus einer deutschen Privatsammlungen, Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste 06.09.2000 – 05.11.2000
- Otto Dix - Die Sammlung Alfred Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser 20.05.2012 – 27.10.2012
- 300 x DIX. Werke von 1912 bis 1969, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Museum Gunzenhauser 29.04.2018 – 02.09.2018
- Otto Dix und die Neue Sachlickeit, Museum Gunzenhauser, 2. OG 24.07.2021 –
- Best of: Part I, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Museum Gunzenhauser
Catalog raisonné
Pfäffle G 10er J/1
Year
1915 – 1918
Material / Technique
Gouache on paper
Signature
sign. u. l.: DIX; rücks. bez.: Nächtliche Szene, 175, 41 MR 120,6
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Museum Gunzenhauser
Inventory no.
GUN-Z-0158
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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