“He had such a clinical, nearly satirist viewpoint.”
Curator Sabine Rewald on a 1922 portrait by Otto Dix.
Doomed
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
Photography by Mark Morosse
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Art Mentioned
Otto Dix
1922
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