In the early 1920s, Dix used the recurrent theme of prostitutes to represent society's callousness and moral decadence. Here his aggressive colors, bold brushstrokes, and use of a bawdy pose emphasize his unyielding subject matter. After 1925, he became an exponent of the socially and politically committed New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) Movement, a group condemned by the National Socialists. Dix was forbidden to exhibit his work, which the Nazis included in their exhibition of degenerate art in 1937; during World War II, he was a prisoner of war. Dix received more positive recognition after the war, but worked in seclusion at his home near Lake Constance until his death.
Details
- Artist Name: Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969)
- Title: Lady
- Date: 1922
- Medium: Watercolor and gouache on Japanese wove paper
- Dimensions: 20-5/8 x 14-1/4 in. (52.4 x 36.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.260
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Object Information
Karl Nierendorf, Cologne, probably sold by 1935 to;
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1
- La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14
Contemporary German Watercolor Painting
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1936-06-06 to 1936-08-01
Painted Papers: Watercolors from Durer to the Present
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1962-03-15 to 1962-04-15
Expressionists
- Los Angeles, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art (Lorser Feitelson), 1935 to ?-
The Nineteenth International Exhibition of Watercolors
- Art Institute of Chicago, 1940-04-25 to 1940-05-26
German Expressionism
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1961-04-25 to 1961-06-04
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
The Blue Four and Their Contemporaries
- Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24
German Expressionist Exhibition
- Norton Simon Museum, 1988-05-19 to 1989-06-18
From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde
- Norton Simon Museum, 2003-05-16 to 2003-10-13
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 356 pp. 138, 141
- Pfäffle, Suse, Otto Dix: Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle und Gouachen, 1991, no. A 1922/185 p. 172
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 361 pp. 354-355
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