Otto Dix
Birth I – Study for the painting “Birth”
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In the year his second son, Ursus, was born, Dix made numerous studies around the theme of birth. The painting “Birth”, started in the same year, remained unfinished (cf. WVZ Löffler 1927/12). Lorenz NSk 8.3.4. Literature: Weiland, Gundet. al. Geburtshilfe im Spiegelbild der Kunst und Gesellschaft im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Bilder der Geburt im Werk of Otto Dix, Diss. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich 1998, with ill.1. Exhibitions: German Realist Drawings of the 1920’s, David Nolan Gallery, New York 1988; Naked Truth: The Body in Early 20th-Century Germany and Austria, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury/Vermont 2015. Provenance: estate of Otto Dix, Hemmenhofen;collection of/estate of Serge Sabarsky, New York, acquired from the aforementioned in 1986;collection of/Foundation Vally Sabarsky, New York.
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