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Otto Dix

The Cannoneer

1913

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Otto Dix

The Cannoneer

1913

Physical Qualities Oil paint on paper mounted on paperboard, Sheet: 854 x 599 mm. (33 5/8 x 23 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Fanny B. Thalheimer Memorial Fund
Object Number 1964.50
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1964; purchased from the artist following inclusion in 1964 exhibition "1914"
Kunstverein, Freiburg, "Otto Dix," and Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 1950-51, cat. no. 1.

Kunst- und Museumverein, Wuppertal, "Otto Dix," 3 February - 10 March 1957, cat. no. 1, illus.

Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, "Otto Dix," 1960, cat. no. 5, illus.

Hessischen Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, "Otto Dix," 29 June - 12 August 1962, cat. no. 3.

BMA, "1914--An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 6 October - 15 November 1964, cat. no. 48.

Jay Fisher, BMA, "German Expressionist Graphics 1905-1985," 9 August - 9 October, 1988.

BMA, "As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum's Collection," 14 May - 11 August, 1991.

BMA, Cone Wing rotation, 27 January 2009 - 8 December 2009.

Oliver Shell, BMA, "German Expressionism: A Revolutionary Spirit," 29 January - 14 September 2014.
Gazette des Beaux Arts (supplement to acquisitions), no. 1165 (February 1966), p. 103.
John Canaday, "Art: Baltimore Looks Back 50 Years," New York Times, October 9, 1964, p. 34C (illus).
Cherrill Anson, "1914--The Year and the Era in Art," Sunday Sun Magazine, October 4, 1964, p. 22-24 (illus).
Harold Rosenberg, "1914." Art News, vol. 62 no. 6 (October 1964), p. 28-41 (illus).
BMA News, vol. XXIX, no. 1-2 (1967), p. 44 (illus).

Inscribed: center right in red paint: "DIX / 1914"; upper center verso in graphite: "29.14"; upper right verso stamped: "im / erker / speisergasse 18.St. G "

Artist

Otto Dix

1890–1968

German, 1891-1969
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