Triptychon otto dix paintings

Triptych by Otto Dix

Metropolis
Artist	Otto Dix
Year	–28
Medium	Mixed technique on wood
Dimensions	&#;cm ×&#;&#;cm (71&#;in ×&#;&#;in)
Location	Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart

Metropolis (German: Großstadt) is a triptych painting by the German artist Otto Dix, executed between and The painting depicts three nighttime city scenes from the Weimar Republic.

The painting belongs to the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart since it was bought from the artist's estate in ^[1]

Description

The main topic of the triptych is the different aspects of the nightlife in a German massive city of the golden twenties.

The year will see the centenary of the start of the First World War. No other 20th-century artist dealt as intensively or as strongly with the First World War than Otto Dix — His shockingly realistic depictions of wounded and dead soldiers in the trenches have been imprinted in our collective memory. In preparation for the exhibition, detailed examinations of the painting have been made since at the SKD's restoration workshops.

The interior of a dance bar is shown on the middle panel. A band dominated by brass is playing on the left. The opulent and beautiful sit and position on the right. The women present visible jewelry and wear dresses, the fabrics and patterns of which could also be found in medieval paintings.

The two groups are joined by a couple dancing the Charleston. Their bodies are reflected in the polished parquet.

Metropolis (German: Großstadt) is a triptych painting by the German artist Otto Dix, executed between and The painting depicts three nighttime municipality scenes from the Weimar Republic. The painting belongs to the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart since it was bought from the artist's estate in [1].

The background of the room is kept dim red. On the left panel, several prostitutes stand contemptuously in front of the bar's red-lit entrance, looking at two men, one lying on the floor and the other a war cripple. The men are barked at by a dog.

On the very outside you can see an almost hidden female looking out of a gate.

Iscrizione registro stampa n. Large - Little. Fast - Leisurely. Easy - Hard.

The right panel shows a group of high-class prostitutes dressed in furs, who seem to be striving towards the viewer in a row and carelessly walking past another war cripple. The fur collar and the red dress of the foremost reproduce the appearance of a vulva.

The right panel ends in a wild architecture that does not seem to be correct.

The themes of the painting are femininity, decadence and sexuality in the modern city. The art professor Marsha Meskimmon has written how the war veterans are "shown weakened in every way by the aggressive sexuality of Weimar women.

Both the economic and sexual bargaining power rests with the demonized whores of modernity."^[2]

Analysis

The painter was inspired by several Medieval and Renaissance works of art for this painting, including the Herrenberg Altarpiece by Jerg Ratgeb, and works of Hans von Köln and Hans Pleydenwurff.

Otto Dix exhibited the picture for the first age at one of the three exhibitions marking the th anniversary of the Saxon Art Association, in On the middle panel, he also portrayed several members of the Saxon art business.

The War German: "Der Krieg"sometimes known as the Dresden War Triptychis a large oil and tempera [ 1 ] painting by the German artist Otto Dix on four wooden panels, a triptych with predella. It was begun in and completed inand has been held by the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden since It is one of several anti-war works done by Dix in the s, inspired by his experience of trench warfare in the First World War. Dix was an art student in Dresden before the First World War.

The man with the monocle on the right is the architect Wilhelm Kreis. The head of the Saxon State Chancellery, Alfred Schulze, is shown as the saxophone player. The prominent position of the saxophone can also be explained by the phonetic similarity between the words Saxony and saxophone.

The female dancer in the middle is generally identified with Martha Dix, the painter's wife. It is not clear whether the male dancer is a highly idealized portrait of the painter himself.^[3][4]

Criticism

Metropolis received a mixed reception.

Nikolaus Pevsner, at the time Assistant Keeper at the Dresden Gallery, provided a positive response.

The painting depicts three nighttime city scenes from the Weimar Republic. The painting belongs to the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart since it was bought from the artist's estate in The main topic of the triptych is the different aspects of the nightlife in a German big city of the golden twenties. The interior of a dance bar is shown on the middle panel.

However, Dix was targeted by several of the volkisch art critics, including Richard Müller and Bettina Feistel-Rohmeder.^[5]

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