Galerie Remmert und Barth finds art by Nazi-branded “degenerate” Expressionist Otto Dix
September 2, 2011 by All Art News
Filed under Education & Research, Featured
BERLIN (REUTERS).- A gallery has discovered four paintings by Otto Dix, the German expressionist whose art chronicled the horrors of World War One, the depravity of the Weimar Republic and was labeled “degenerate” by Adolf Hitler. Famous for works critical of the darker side of German society in the 1920s, Dix’s paintings were discovered among the belongings of his wife, gallery owner Herbert Remmert told Reuters Wednesday. The paintings were found in a portfolio untouched for decades on an estate in [...]
Marc Chagall’s Illustrations for Gogol’s “Dead Souls” on View at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
January 20, 2010 by All Art News
Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured
TEL AVIV.- In the spring of 1931, Marc Chagall set sail for a visit in Eretz-Israel. He had been invited by Tel Aviv Mayor Meir Dizengoff, following their acquaintance in Paris in 1930. Chagall was taken with Dizengoff’s passion to establish a museum in the emerging Jewish city, and agreed to join the Paris Committee set up to promote the project. Chagall brought a gift, his series of prints illustrating Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls. The series was personally dedicated [...]