Otto Dix: Haunted Visions | Graphic Masterworks from an Important Private Collection
Otto Dix: Haunted Visions | Graphic Masterworks from an Important Private Collection
Property from a Private European Collection
Otto Dix
Schloss Randegg (K. 128)
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March 19, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Property from a Private European Collection
Otto Dix
1891 - 1969
Schloss Randegg (K. 128)
Drypoint, 1925, signed in pencil, dated, from the edition of 36, published by Hans Koch, on cream laid paper, unframed
image: 145 by 195mm 5 7/8 by 7 3/4 in
sheet: 215 by 267mm 8 1/2 by 10 1/2 in
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin
Private Collection, Switzerland (Acquired from the above in the 1960's)
Thence by descent to the present owner
In 1923 Otto Dix and Martha were married. Her previous husband, Hans Koch, married her sister Maria. These relationships worked out well. The Koch family owned the Schloss Randegg in Baden-Württemberg not far from the Swiss border, and it was there that the Dix family settled in 1933 following the Nazi takeover. Dix had been dismissed, without recompense, from his post in Dresden on the 8th of April, 1933 as an artist whose work undermined national morale. Forced to support himself and his family somehow Dix turned to landscape painting. Randegg, in an area of mountains and forests, was an ideal spot.