After being closed for several months, the Otto Dix House in Gera reopens to the public today. Photographs, sketches and early works will be on display in the house where the artist was born, according to the Gera Art Collection. The house had been closed since August in order to prepare the new exhibition entitled "How it all began".
Every year, the art collection records around 16,000 visitors around the theme of Dix. It is hoping for an increase in the future - also thanks to the exhibition "Otto Dix - Trau deinen Augen", which opened in October in the Gera Orangery.
Dix was born in Gera in 1891 and is considered one of the most important representatives of the New Objectivity art movement. Over the course of his career, he repeatedly changed his style. During the Nazi era, his works were defamed.
The Gera art collection has a particularly rich collection of the painter's early and youthful works until around 1910. Otto Dix then left Gera to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden.
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