Otto Dix : a Tale of Two Germanies
"I'll either be famous or infamous," declared the controversial German painter who died in 1969. His subjects range from tranquil landscapes to frenzied sex murders, from brutalised war criminals to religious allegories.
In his lifetime he found little favour on either side of his divided country. He was hauled before the courts on charges of obscenity, and his paintings were burned by the Nazis as being degenerate, and yet he has more recently been hailed as the "last great German artist of our times".
A rena examines the work of an artist who, in the new
Germany, is seen as both an influential and unifying figure. Director Nicola Roberts
Series editors Nigel Finch and Anthony Wall