Otto Dix's landscape paintings from the years 1933 to 1945 are the focus of the new collection presentation at Museum Gunzenhauser from February 25 to May 31, 2026. The selection is complemented by New Objectivity paintings by Otto Dix, Karl Hubbuch, Georg Schrimpf, Max Peiffer Watenphul and Gustav Wunderwald.
After Expressionist, Futurist and Dadaist beginnings, Otto Dix's artistic work underwent a clear formal calming around 1921. He developed an independent, critical realism that combined old-masterly painting techniques with sharp social analysis and became one of the central protagonists of New Objectivity. Immediately after the National Socialists came to power, Dix was the first German artist to be dismissed from his professorship at the Dresden Academy. Together with his family, he retired to Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance and lived there in a form of inner emigration.
The loss of the big city as his most important source of inspiration led to an increased focus on landscape painting. Using an elaborate glazing technique based on old German panel painting, Dix created composed pictures in his studio in which he used threatening natural motifs to reflect the political events of the time - between retreat, isolation and adaptation.
Parallel to this, the Museum Gunzenhauser has been showing a selection from its collection of sculptures since January 28, 2026. Although this genre was not the focus of Alfred Gunzenhauser's collecting activities, the collection includes remarkable individual works, including Pierre Bonnard's Horse Rising from the Sea, Franz von Stuck's Siegfried and Renée Sintenis' The Boxer Erich Brandl.
After Expressionist, Futurist and Dadaist beginnings, Otto Dix's artistic work underwent a clear formal calming around 1921. He developed an independent, critical realism that combined old-masterly painting techniques with sharp social analysis and became one of the central protagonists of New Objectivity. Immediately after the National Socialists came to power, Dix was the first German artist to be dismissed from his professorship at the Dresden Academy. Together with his family, he retired to Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance and lived there in a form of inner emigration.
The loss of the big city as his most important source of inspiration led to an increased focus on landscape painting. Using an elaborate glazing technique based on old German panel painting, Dix created composed pictures in his studio in which he used threatening natural motifs to reflect the political events of the time - between retreat, isolation and adaptation.
Parallel to this, the Museum Gunzenhauser has been showing a selection from its collection of sculptures since January 28, 2026. Although this genre was not the focus of Alfred Gunzenhauser's collecting activities, the collection includes remarkable individual works, including Pierre Bonnard's Horse Rising from the Sea, Franz von Stuck's Siegfried and Renée Sintenis' The Boxer Erich Brandl.