"He had such a clinical, nearly satirist viewpoint."
Curator Sabine Rewald on a portrait by Otto Dix.
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Otto Dix wanted to capture the essence of a person, no matter how negative
"He had such a clinical, nearly satirist viewpoint."
Sabine Rewald
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Sabine Rewald
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
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Otto Dix
1922