Tag: Otto Dix

With Graphic Intent

With highlights from the Courtauld’s collection of German and Austrian modernist works on paper and some noteworthy loans, this is a must-see exhibition for anyone interested in early modernist expressionism and the graphic arts
George Gittoes – interview: ‘The spirit of art cannot be suppressed by the barbarity of war’

The Australian artist has been visiting war zones for 50 years and he and his wife travelled to Kyiv the week after Russia’s invasion. He explains his need to go there to work with Ukrainian artists, paint murals on destroyed…
Marcelle Hanselaar – interview: ‘To do nothing, to not at least take the responsibility of bearing witness, to show no empathy, would be to lose part of our humanity’

The artist, 20 of whose works are now on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum, talks about the power struggles in her work and how being one step removed enables creatives to produce an empathetic, imaginative and impactful response to global…
Hans Hofmann – Fury: Painting After the War

A concise exhibition at Bastian captures the German-American painter manoeuvring between modernisms, endlessly experimenting in his attempt to marry the expressive with the pictorial
Magic Realism: Art In Weimar Germany 1919-33

Tate Modern’s exhibition on magic realism brings together the works of troubled minds from turbulent times
Jeanne Mammen: The Observer. Retrospective (1910-75)

Mammen wanted to be “a pair of eyes, walking through the world unseen, only to be able to see others”. This retrospective, although stretching beyond the best period of her observational work in the Berlin of the 20s, offers visitors…
Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919–1933

A portrait of a nation, of an era, and, at heart, of humanity, this dual exhibition of two key artists of the Weimar Republic – photographer August Sander and painter Otto Dix – gives a comprehensive overview of the sociopolitical…
Visual Wit and Social Critique. Satire from Goya to Grosz

With three centuries’ worth of satire, this exhibition offers an overview of things that have changed and, perhaps more engagingly, things that have not, through an artist’s eye view of society
Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns

This, the first show ever devoted to metalpoint, includes works by some of the greatest artists and is the finest exhibition dedicated to the history of drawing that we are likely to experience.
Klara Lidén: The Myth of Progress

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 12 October 2013 – 19 January 2014