Thursday, January 29, 2015

The somber, even angry, Women of the Depressed 1930s



1930 Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch (Austrian artist, 1898-1937) Portrait of the Mother



Felice Casorati (1883 –1963) Daphne a  Pavarolo 1934



1930 Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Portrait of Signora Vighi



1930 Josef Scharl (German painter, 1896-1954) Street Scene in Paris



1930 Manfred Hirzel (German artist, 1905-1932) Melitta



Karl Hubbuch (German artist, 1891–1979) Theater Loge c 1930



1931 Antonio Donghi (Italian Painter, 1897-1963) Portrait of a Woman in Hat



1931 Otto Dix (German Expressionist painter, 1891-1969) Woman with Red Hair



1932 Amedeo Bocchi (Italian artist, 1883–1932)



1932 Conrad Felixmüller, Bildnis Frau Sofie Isakowitz



1932 Conrad Felixmüller (German Expressionist painter, 1897-1977) A Russian Imigrant from Baku (Frau Ginda Krettingen)



1932 Max Beckmann (German Expressionist Painter, 1884-1950) Quappi in Pink



1933 Karl Hubbuch (German artist, 1891–1979) Afternoon Tea



1935 Antonio Berni (Argentine artist, 1905-1981) Woman in Red Sweater



1935 Doris Clare Zinkeisen (British artist, 1898-1991) Self-Portrait



1935 Marcello Dudovich (Italian artist, 1878-1962] Ritratto di signora



1935 Werner Schramm (German artist, 1898-1970) Portrait of a Lady on the Pont des Arts



1937 Rita Angus, Self-portrait



1938 Diego Rivera, Portrait of Lupe Marín



1939 Paul Citroen (German-born Dutch artist, 1896-1983) Portray of Corry Mohlenfeldt


Sunday, January 25, 2015

Family by German artist Otto Dix 1891-1969



1921 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Foundry Worker Franz Dix 1862-1942 and Louise Seamstress Amann Dix 1864-1953 - The Artist's Parents 

Otto Dix what famous for his unique & amp; grotesque style. After volunteering to serve in WWI in 1914, Dix Became anti-war. He did not like the way veterans were Treated upon Their return. In 1924 Dix joined with other artists who had fought in the WWI to put on a traveling Exhibition of Paintings called No More War!  In 1933 Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany. Hitler & amp; his Nazi government disliked Dix's anti-military paintings arranging for him to be dismissed from his position as art tutor at the Dresden Academy. Dix's dismissal letter said that his work "threatened to sap the will of the German people to defend Themselves." In 1939, Dix what Arrested & amp; charged with involvement in a plot on Hitler's life. Hey what Eventually released & amp; the charges were dropped. In the WWII, Dix what conscripted into the Volkssturm, the German Home Guard. And at the end of the war in 1945 Dix what forced to join the German Army, where he captured what & amp; put into a prisoner-of-war camp. Released in 1946, Dix returned to Dresden, a city indeed had been destroyed by heavy bombing Virtually. Although Hitler's Nazi regime destroyed many of Otto Dix's works, many can be seen resting in museum Throughout the world.

Otto Dix (German Expressionist painter, 1891-1969) The Artist's Wife



1920 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Working Class Boy



 1921  Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969)  Woman Doctor Hans Koch. "Doctor" was removed When She Became Mrs. Dix.



1921 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Two Children



1923 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Portrait of Mrs. Martha Dix (Portrait of Mrs. Martha Dix)



1923 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Mother with Child



Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Mother and Child



Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Baby with Umbilical Cord



1924 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Foundry Worker Franz Dix 1862-1942 and Louise Seamstress Amann Dix 1864-1953 - The Artist's Parents



1924 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) The Artist's Daughter Nelly amongst Flowers



1925 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Artist's Daughter Nelly



1925 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) The Lawyer Dr Fritz Glasser Family Portrait



1926 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Hardent



1927 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Newborn Baby on Hands



1927 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) The Artist's Family



1928 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Child with Doll



Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Mother and Child



1928 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Portrait of a Young Girl - Erni




Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Stroll



1928-29 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) The Artist's Son Ursus with Spintop



Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Sunday Stroll



1929 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Children at Play



1930 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Pregnant Woman



1930 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Self Portrait with My Son



1931 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) The Artist's Son Ursus Sitting



1935 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Mother and Eva



1940 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) The Artist's Daughter Nelly as Flora



1942 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Mother with Child Irmgard Bahle



1968 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Self Portrait with Marcella



 1923 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Self Portrait