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Article: Hell and afterwards: prints by Otto Dix and Max Beckmann depicting World War and its aftermath make a powerful, unsettling exhibition at the Neue Galerie in New York.(Exhibitions)
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- September 1, 2005
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Although Otto Dix and Max Beckmann are sometimes seen as contrasting artists, a small yet powerful one-room exhibition of two print portfolios, Dix's Der Krieg (War) and Beckmann's Die Holle (Hell) at New York's Neue Galerie reveals analogies between the two, for all their differences of style and approach. Both were steeped in the German tradition of Durer and Grunewald and this helped them to portray the horrors of the war with unusual exactitude. Both had an urge to portray reality in all its facets, however unpalatable.
Entering the room, one is likely to look first at Beckmann's ten-picture cycle, since it is on the closer wall. This may seem incongruous, ...
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