Doomed

Sabine Rewald

October 1, 2013

2 min. watch

This video is part of 82nd and Fifth, a series that invites curators from across the Museum to talk about an artwork that changed the way they see the world.

“He had such a clinical, nearly satirist viewpoint.”

Curator Sabine Rewald on a 1922 portrait by Otto Dix.

Contributors

Sabine Rewald
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art

Photography by Mark Morosse

Art Mentioned

The Businessman Max Roesberg, Dresden, Otto Dix German, Oil on canvas — The Businessman Max Roesberg, Dresden
Otto Dix
1922

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