Home > Literature and the Arts > Art and Architecture > European Art, 1600 to the Present: Biographies

Research topic:Otto Dix

Find more facts and information on our topic page about Otto Dix

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

Give this article a thumbs-up on StumbleUpon

Otto Dix

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

Otto Dix 1891-1969, German painter and draftsman. Dix fought in World War I and returned to Düsseldorf haunted by the horrors he had witnessed. Associated with the new objectivity movement in German expressionism , he depicted the sordid world of prostitutes and swindlers with a painful precision and intensity. In 1924 he published War, a series of 50 etchings, fantastic visions executed with great clarity. Accused of an attempt on Hitler's life in 1939, he was imprisoned in Dresden and later made prisoner of war by the French. After the war he worked in West Germany.

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

"Otto Dix." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 2 Dec. 2008 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"Otto Dix." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (December 2, 2008). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Dix-Otto.html

"Otto Dix." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Retrieved December 02, 2008 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Dix-Otto.html

Learn more about citation styles

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	The next German question; now West Germany has found its post-Hitler feet, where will they carry it? (editorial) Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 1/23/1988; 700+ words ; Now West Germany has found its post-Hitler feet, where...collywobbles about what sort of price West Germany might be tempted to pay for the chance...are-is not how a backward-looking West Germany might seek to redraw the post- 1 945... Read more
	Being there. (West Germany) Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/29/1989; 700+ words ; West Germany Being there Already Europe's dominant economic power, West Germany will look even mightier if weapons and other...chancellor, Mr Willy Brandt, two decades ago, put West Germany on talking terms with Eastern Europe. But the... Read more
	Football: Euro 2000 - ENGLAND v WEST GERMANY: PREVIOUS MEETINGS.(Sport) Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 6/17/2000; 199 words ; ...Tottenham): England 3 Germany 0 May 14 1938: (Berlin): Germany 3 England 6 v West Germany Dec 1 1954: (Wembley): England 3 West Germany 1 May 26 1956: (Berlin): West Germany 1 England 3 May 12 1965: (Nuremburg): West Germany 0 England 1 Feb 23 1966... Read more
	Wunderkind at 40. (West Germany) (editorial) Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/7/1988; 700+ words ; WEST Germany is rich, clean and politically stable...though it is that as well. By 1990 West Germany will have a full decade of economic...neighbours, sick. Between 1980 and 1987 West Germany's output grew by 11/2% a year, the... Read more
	Ein Wissenschaftswunder? (research and development in West Germany) (Science and Technology) Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 11/11/1989; 700+ words ; ...Wissenschaftswunder? THE crude figures say yes. West Germany is Europehs biggest investor in R&...According to the Battelle Institute, West Germany and Japan will spend 2.9% of GNP on...down this scale since 1985; Japan and West Germany continue to climb. A popular fallacy... Read more
	Thrift for thrift's sake; West Germany's government is right to worry about inflation, wrong to tighten its fiscal policy. (editorial) Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 1/16/1988; 662 words ; West Germany's government is right to worry about...THE American Treasury's verdict on West Germany's new plan to raise taxes and cut public...trade. The Treasury's conclusion, that West Germany should let its budget deficit rise... Read more
	Standing up. (West Germany and the Kuwait-Iraq Conflict, 1990) (Europe) Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 8/18/1990; 653 words ; ...the Middle East continued this week, West Germany's generals and admirals could only look...what is clearly as much of a threat to West Germany as to any other country in Europe, they...Though the constitution authorises West Germany's participation in NATO and the Western... Read more
	WEST GERMANY NOW WORLD'S TOP EXPORTER REGAINS LEADERSHIP OVER UNITED STATES DURING FIRST THREE MONTHS OF 1990 Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/2/1990; ; 347 words ; WASHINGTON - West Germany was the world's biggest exporter...Monetary Fund reported yesterday. West Germany increased its exports to $99.8 billion...billion worth of exports compared to West Germany's $341 billion. West Germany first... Read more
	The `Sovereignty' of West Germany Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/25/1989; 353 words ; ...current events and political ethics in West Germany. The writer, Jim Hoagland, clearly recognizes...acceptable pattern of political behavior in West Germany." How true! But according to my observations...national sovereignty to the people of West Germany, ending military government ... Read more
	Retreat. (West Germany) (Europe) Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/22/1989; 661 words ; Retreat West Germany NO SOONER had Helmut Kohl, West Germany's chancellor, announced a big cabinet reshuffle last...this year, saying that it, underlined the firmness of West Germany's commitment to NATO. Now he has decided to shelve... Read more

For more facts and information, see all related premium articles

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

	Otto Dix Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Otto Dix German painter and graphic artist Otto Dix (1891-1969) became best known for his work in the 1920s as...of social criticism were called "degenerate" by the Nazis. Otto Dix was born December 2, 1891, in Untermhaus (Thuringia) of working... Read more
	Dix, Otto Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Dix, Otto (1891–1969). German painter...ex-soldier begging in the street, and Dix's fifty etchings entitled The...x2019; ( Hamilton). In 1925 Dix moved to Berlin, then in 1927...the Nazis in 1939. By this time Dix was living quietly in the country... Read more
	Dix, Otto Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Dix, Otto ( b Untermhaus, Thuringia, 2...ex-soldier begging in the street, and Dix's 50 etchings entitled The War...Pompidou Centre, Paris). In 1927 Dix was appointed a teacher at the...the Nazis in 1939. From 1936 Dix had lived quietly in the country... Read more
	Dix, Otto Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Dix, Otto (1891–1969). German painter and printmaker. In the 1920s he was, with George Grosz , the outstanding artist of the Neue...depiction of indifference to suffering, showing passers-by ignoring a blind and limbless ex-soldier begging in the street, and Dix's fifty etchings entitled The War ... Read more
	Dix, Otto Book article from: World Encyclopedia Dix, Otto (1891–1969) German painter and engraver. He was a pitiless satirist of inhumanity, notably in a series of 50 etchings called... Read more