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...bitter disillusionment of the period is brilliantly expressed in the drawing of A Woman by Otto Dix. There is nothing soft or feminine in the face. Her coarse skin and irregular features express suffering, her eyes have seen the horrors of war. The work is a passionate attack on the brutality and stupidity of modern civilization. Just as forceful in its attack but far more humorous is the drawing by George Grosz called "Berlin Cafe" The bourgeoisie of the German capital is satirized with vitriolic fire. Portrayals of the sufferings of the lower classes appear in the prints and drawings...
...driving it along at 70, 80, 90 m.p.h. Thanks to airconditioning, its passengers felt nothing of Imperial Valley's heat. Up steep grades of the Rockies M10001 sped at over 50 m.p.h., shot through the snow-capped passes of the Continental Divide, glided swiftly across the prairies. Between Dix and Potter, Neb. it covered two miles in one minute flat. Never before had a passenger train hit 120 m.p.h.* After a run of 38 hr. 49 min. from Los Angeles M10001 glided smoothly into Chicago's La Salle Street Station, 20 hours ahead of the fastest regular train...
Unseen by Museumgoers, too, was Otto Dix's great oil of War. This mighty work, compared by some to the war paintings of the late Vassili Vassilievich Vereshchagin, was originally hung in a Cologne museum. When Adolf Hitler came into power indignant Nazis spirited it away, whither no man will tell. Approximately 9 x 9 ft., War depicts a jungle-like ravine choked with abandoned corpses and military refuse. Grass grows from skulls that have spilled their brains; hands without bodies clutch vainly after life; a cadaver on the skeleton of a twisted barricade rots in mid air. The whole...
...Otto Dix is a home-loving father of three, a cafe frequenter who hates to talk war. He saves part of his venom for his frequent studies of circuses, trollops, murders, pregnancies. So pungent was his art that Adolf Hitler removed him last year from a lucrative professorship in Dresden's Kunst Akademie. He has, how ever, painted many a kindly portrait of children, one of which is owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller...
...Dix fell in love with a beauteous sitter named Mutzli Koch, wife of a Düsseldorf doctor and art collector. They ran away together. After her divorce Dix and Mutzli were married and so were Dr. Koch and Mutzli's sister. Now the two families are friends, visit one another...