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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. No knowledge! I do not want to know him at all, I only want to see what is there, on the outside. The inner follows by itself. It is mirrored in the visible.
| | - Otto Dix, quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art |
Otto Dix Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Otto Dix available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Skull, 1924
(In the "Etching" section)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Info about the 2005 exhibition, The Art of War: Otto Dix's Der Krieg [War] Cycle
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French) 
3 works online
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Artist's Family
The Orangerie and the Otto Dix House, Gera, Germany
Click "Collections" for 4 works by Dix
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The suicide
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Portrait of Dr. Heinrich Stadelmann, 1922
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Card Players
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
The Poet Iwar von Lücken
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
7 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Woman Lying on a Leopard Skin
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "D"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (mostly in French)
Portrait d'un prisonnier, 1945
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Portrait of the painter Franz Radziwill, 1928
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
5 works by Dix
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Images from a 2008 exhibition
Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York City
2 works online, plus 3 photographs of Otto Dix
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Deux enfants, 1921
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
The Felixmuller Family, 1919
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Mädchen am Spiegel, 1922
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
The Match Seller
State Museums of Berlin
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Hugo Erfurth with Dog, 1926
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Micro-site for a 2008 exhibition exploring Dix's portrait of Hugo Erfurth
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Otto Dix at The Athenaeum
2 works online
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Otto Dix at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Leda, 1919
University of Leipzig, Germany
University of Leipzig, Germany
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Art of the First World War
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Otto Dix 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 44): Otto Dix, Raymond Pettibon
Spartacus Educational Books
War Artists of W.W.I.
The New York Observer
"Dix and Beckmann: Two Painters Convey The Horror of War", article by Hilton Kramer
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Der Krieg / The War
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