Dix/Beckmann: Mythos Welt
at Kunsthalle Mannheim
Mannheim, Germany
Nov 22, 13 - Mar 23, 14
Dix/Beckmann: The World as Myth // Max Beckmann (1884-1950) and Otto Dix (1891-1969) are the two outstanding figurative painters of German Post-Expressionism. They fascinate and polarise to this day. Their paintings had a distinctive impact on the cultural Golden Era of the Weimar Republic. It was Gustav F. Hartlaub, director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, who placed Dix and Beckmann at the heart of his programmatic exhibition “Die neue Sachlichkeit” in 1925. Today, and in the same space of the Jugendstilbau, both artists come together again in Mannheim for an intense artistic dialogue with astonishing relations and surprising juxtapositions. Click on the link below to get more detail.
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