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The Match Seller

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1920

creation

Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969)

male

German painter and printmaker. Dix was born at Untermhaus, Thuringia, and was apprenticed to an interior decorator (1905–9) before studying at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts 1909–14. At Dresden he absorbed the work of the Expressionists and was particularly influenced by van Gogh. From 1914 to 1918 he served in the First World War; initially enthusiastic, he was soon sickened by the horror and violence which he recorded in dramatic oil paintings, full of movement and violence, which incorporated the techniques of Futurism. After the war he studied at the Academies of Dresden (1918–22) and Düsseldorf (1922–5) gradually moving from Dadaism towards the greater realism exemplified by the Neue Sachlichkeit, although his work can hardly be described as objective. He remained deeply scarred by his wartime experiences and disillusioned by post-war society; Der Krieg (The War), a series of 50 etchings, published in 1924, has a Goyaesque intensity and his paintings of crippled war veterans, like Die Skatspieler (1920; Berlin, Neue Nationalgal.), have a crude and compelling immediacy. Prostitutes, another recurrent theme in the 1920s, are used almost allegorically as a symbol of a decadent corrupt society and, usually obese or emaciated, are cruelly shocking moralities. From 1927 Dix taught at the Dresden Academy and also established a reputation for his idiosyncratic unflattering portraits; but in 1933 he was dismissed by the Nazis and in 1934 forbidden to exhibit. After the Second World War, in which he was briefly conscripted, he lived in Hemmenhofen, on the Bodensee, where he was inspired by the Alpine landscape to turn to German Renaissance masters, like Dürer and Altdorfer, as prototypes for mannered allegorical and spiritual paintings which, despite their ambition, remain essentially vapid. (Grove Art Online accessed 2007-10-27)

Modernist

Expressionist

20th century

sidewalks

dachshunds

amputees

blindness

peddlers

street vendors

cities

dogs

social classes

men (male humans)

paintings (visual works)

paintings

painting

142 cm (H) x 166 cm (W)

signed, dated

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

repository

Stuttgart, Germany

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