In this painting, the centre of Otto Dix, The Match Seller, 1920 More about Otto Dix in my "Weimar" blog: weimarart.blogspot.com/search/label/Dix The disorder and early sorrow witnessed by Thomas Mann in the early 1920s was visited upon what he called the upper middle class. The Match Seller Otto Dix (320 artworks, 3,921 followers) Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhaɪnʁiç ˈɔto ˈdɪks]; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Das Gemälde gehört zu den vier in Dresden gemalten "Krüppelbildern", mit denen Otto Dix in einer drastisch pointierten Bildsprache die Sinnlosigkeit und Brutalität des Krieges anprangert. This painting is one of four »pictures of cripples« done by Otto Dix in Dresden.
Otto Dix, The Match Seller, 1920 A blind, quadruple amputee (a German WWI veteran) with a face almost the size of his body sits forlornly on a well-kept city pavement.
He wears dark glasses and his field cap but no medals or other insignia. He depicted the characters in his 1920s stories with an edge of regret; an empathy probably born of his own class status … Nothing would ever be the same for them after the debacle of the First World War. Using a drastically pointed visual language, Dix protests in these works against the senselessness and brutality of war.
DIX, Otto Self-Portrait with Muse 1924 Oil on canvas, 81 x 95 cm Osthaus Museum, Hagen DIX, Otto The Match Seller (detail) 1921 Oil on canvas and collage, 44 x 166 cm Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart 31. The Match Seller, 1920 by Otto Dix on Curiator, the world's biggest collaborative art collection. Click to select the cover image for this artwork.
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