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...nominees for the remaining 15 posts are: Abraham H. Black 1G, R. Wallace Bowman 1P.A., Marion C. Brewer 1P.A., Charles E. Brown 1G.Ed., Stewart G. Bryant 2G.S.D., Robert E. Burns 1G, Robert H. Dix 1G, John T. Connell 2G.S.D., Rodney E. Engelin 2G.S.D., Wendell L. French 1G.Ed., David R. Gardner 1P.A., Abdul R.A. Al-Habeeb 1G, and Monroe Z. Hafter...
Last week in Munich, Painter Dix's stubbornness was rewarded by a big retrospective show in honor of his 60th birthday. While the Nazis and World War II had not stopped his painting, they had radically changed its style. Under "permanent observation" by the Nazis, Dix dropped his brutal social criticism and took to noncommittal expressionist landscapes filled with bright colors and bold patterns. He found life on Lake Constance "idyllic, probably too idyllic...
...idyl was interrupted for a while in 1944. At 53, ex-Soldier Dix was drafted into the Volkssturm for the last-ditch defense of the Reich. But his World War II service was brief and painless. "I was with my squad of ten other men near a little town on the Rhine. We were posted in a field. It was a warm spring afternoon. We all lay down in the grass and went to sleep The next thing we knew, there were some French African troops standing over us with machine guns in their hands. We just did what they...
...French P.W. camp, Dix was told to paint an altarpiece for the camp chapel. The camp commander liked the painting so well that he appropriated it for his private collection, and told the prisoner to paint another for the chapel. Dix became seriously interested in religious art. After he was released, he refused a Russian offer of his old professorship at Dresden and returned to Lake Constance...
...last week's show, critics found his new religious paintings the most impressive. And Dix agrees. Now he confesses: "Even as a young artist I had a longing to paint religious motives, not because I am a religious man but because the motives are so universal. With a Madonna, everybody understands what you're saying...