“Lady with Mink and Veil”, 1920
Oil and tempera on canvas mounted on cardboard, 28 3/4″ x 21 1/2″
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According to Sanford Schwartz of The New York Review of Books (published July 20, 2010):
This summer, the Neue Galerie in New York is offering the first large-scale American exhibition of the gleefully provocative German painter Otto Dix (1891–1969)—providing a rare opportunity, as New York Review contributor Sanford Schwartz says, “to appreciate an artist who could almost be our contemporary.”
With the strong similarities between the socioeconomic atmosphere of the German Weimer Republic of the 1920′s and the current US situation (massive unemployment, inflation, national debt due to wartime spending), the works of Dix and the New Objectivity continue to resonate just as powerfully as the day they were created.
A slideshow of images from the show, which will appear in the Review‘s August 19 issue can be seen here. The exhibition closes August 30.
posted by: Harold Johns III
Tags: art, artist shout out, drawings, gallery opening, history, paintings
August 23rd, 2010 at 10:22 am
I just recently had a chance to check out Otto Dix at the Neue Galerie. There is some very interesting pieces on exhibit.Everyone in the area should check it out. It left me layed up in my manhattan rental apartment for hours pondering over a few of the pieces..