Otto Dix - German, important artist of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).   Photo: Hugo Erfurth

Otto Dix with his painting class at the Dresden Academy.  Photo by Hugo Erfurth

Otto Dix, Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1922

Otto Dix by Hugo Erfurth

“All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.”

“Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.”

Martha Koch (Otto’s wife) and Otto Dix by Hugo Erfurth

Otto Dix, photo by Hugo Erfurth

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Otto Dix, 1933 -by Hugo Erfurth

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Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969), Self-Portrait (Selbstporträt), 1922

Otto Dix with Self-Portrait with Martha, 1922

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Otto Dix

Otto Dix, Self-Portrait as Targget,  1915