Otto Dix : Collaboration between the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Neue Gallery, New York

Monday, March 29, 2010

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Otto Dix (1891-1969), a German artist deeply affected by both World Wars, in which he fought, was at the forefront of the Berlin movement Neue Sachlichkeit [New Objectivity], which espoused a realist, often critical, view of society during the interwar years and portrayed their profound sense of unease and pessimism.

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The most banal but also the cruder aspects of urban life were captured in a style combining classic pictorial traditions with the formal innovations of the avant-garde. Considered a "degenerate" artist by the Nazi regime for his cynical depiction of his contemporaries, he was forced to give up his professorship at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He abandoned his brutally honest portrayals of the excesses of the Weimar Republic and adopted a more allegorical, less acerbic style.

A keen observer of the world, which he described as "frightening and beautiful," Dix continues to both disturb and fascinate us. This first major North American exhibition devoted to Dix will present some forty paintings – including the superb Portrait of the Lawyer Hugo Simons already in the Museum’s collection – and over a hundred of Dix’s graphic works, remarkable for their unflinching depiction of his era.

Organized by the Neue Galerie, New York, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

New York: March 11 to August 30, 2010
Montreal: September 24, 2010 to January 2, 2011