The Otto-Dix-Haus or Otto Dix House in Gera is a museum located in the birth house of the German painter Otto Dix, at Mohrenplatz 4. The building became an art museum in 1991, with exhibits on two floors. for the celebrations of the 100th birthday of Otto Dix. [1] The museum, with the Orangerie, is part of the Kunstsammlung Gera.
The half-timbered building was built in the 18th century. In 1946 the rear building was converted for residential purposes. In the run-up to the 100th birthday of Otto Dix, who was born in the house on December 2, 1891, the building was converted into a museum from 1988 to 1991. For this purpose, an extension was built on the west side as an access and functional wing.
The museum evokes the atmosphere of a simple working-class house of the beginning of the 20th century and shows materials about the life and work of the artist. The museum's permanent exhibition includes 400 of his drawings and oil paintings, and printed graphics from its own holdings. In addition to works by Dix, which have a permanent place, there are also changing exhibitions of other loans. In addition to the works of Otto Dix himself, the museum regularly hosts exhibitions by other artists, including photo exhibitions, for which there is a separate exhibition hall. The rooms where Dix lived contain his work. The extensive collection of works on paper is displayed in alternating special exhibitions. After prior notice it is also possible to visit the study room and the collection of graphics of the house. The collection also includes the 48 postcards he sent during his service at World War I.
The paintings from several phases of the artist work exhibited in the museum include: Selbstbildnis als Raucher (1913), Meine Freundin Elis (1919), Doppelbildnis Otto Dix/Kurt Günther (1920), Der Heilige Christophorus IV (1939), and Bildnis des Malers Hans Theo Richter mit Frau Gisela (1933).
In addition to exhibition activities, the house-museum also runs educational courses for teachers and artists, including youth groups divided by age.
On 3 June 2013, the flooding of the White Elster River reached the ground floor of the museum. The flood damage made it necessary to renovate the building. The Otto-Dix-Haus therefore closed on 4 January 2016, and some exhibits were shown in an interim exhibition in the city museum. [2] On Dix's 125th birthday, on 2 December 2016, the museum reopened with the special exhibition "Otto Dix: Drawing Art with Silver Pen". [3]
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.
Gera is, with around 93,000 inhabitants, the third-largest city of Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the Thüringer Städtekette, an almost straight string of cities consisting of the six largest Thuringian cities from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena to Gera in the east. Gera is the largest city in the Vogtland, and one of its historical capitals along with Plauen, Greiz and Weida. The city lies in the East Thuringian Hill Country, in the wide valley of the White Elster, between Greiz (upstream) and Leipzig (downstream). Gera is located in the Central German Metropolitan Region, approximately 60 kilometres south of Saxony's largest city of Leipzig, 80 km east of Thuringia's capital Erfurt, 120 km west of Saxony's capital Dresden and 90 km north of Bavaria's city of Hof (Saale).
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