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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
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Work Title (display):
Vanitas (Youth and Old Age)
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1932
Work Dates type:
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Work Creator (display):
Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969)
Work Creator gender:
male
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Work Creator notes (display):
German painter and printmaker. Dix was born at Untermhaus, Thuringia, and was apprenticed to an interior decorator (19059) before studying at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts 190914. 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 (191822) and Düsseldorf (19225) 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)
Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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Work Material and Technique (display):
mixed media on wood
Work Measurements (display):
100.4 cm (H) x 70.3 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Zeppelin-Museum
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Work Location (Geographic) name:
Friedrichshafen, Germany
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Image Source Reproduction citation:
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, editor. Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2017.
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Pfeiffer, Ingrid, editor. Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2017.
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Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-3-7774-2933-5
Image Source Reproduction page number:
86
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
4
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ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© AKG-Images
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Otto Dix
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