Pimp and Whore by Otto Dix
Art Institute of Chicago

Pimp and Whore

Otto Dix · 1921

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by the artist to Hans Goltz, Munich, probably between 1923 and 1927 [Lorenz 2003]. Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin [Barton 1981]. André Horn (1873-1948), Mullhouse and Strasbourg, probably before 1930 [his stamp (Lugt 4785), recto, lower left in black]. Given by Dennis Adrian, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Cambridge, Mass, Busch-Reisinger Museum, "German Realist Drawings and Watercolors of the 1920s," July 26-Sept. 28, 1986; also New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 15-July 6, 1986; Hamburg, Hambuger Kunsthalle, Aug.-Sept. 1986; and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Oct. 25-Dec. 19, 1986.
  • Lake Forest, Ill., Lake Forest College, Sonnenschein Gallery, Durand Institute, "German Expressionism," Winter 1988.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “German Art of the Past: Prints and Drawings from Friedrich to Baselitz,” June 15-Sept. 22, 2002, no cat.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," July 17-September 13, 2009, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Brigid S. Barton, Otto Dix und die Neue Sachlichkeit, 1918 -1925 (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1981), p. 147, no. 89.
  • Ulrike Lorenz, Otto Dix: Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Aquarelle II (Weimar, 2003), p. 783, no. EDV 8.1.4.
  • Maria Makela, “‘A Clear and Simple Style’: Tradition and Typology in New Objectivity,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28:1 (2002), p. 47, fig. 12.

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