The exhibition (Otto Dix – Adolf Dietrich. Zwei Maler am Bodensee) compares these two leading representatives of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit, 1920s). They lived only 3 kilometers apart as the crow flies by Lake Constance – Adolf Dietrich (1877-1957) in Berlingen (Canton Thurgau) and Otto Dix (1891-1969) in Hemmenhofen on the German side of the lake.
Both artists found their motifs in the scenes and landscapes around Lake Constance. How do the artists differ in their approach? How did their backgrounds influence them, and how did they reflect the upheavals and changes of their time?
Adolf Dietrich, Landscape over Berlingen in Early Spring, 1933, private collection
Approximately 100 paintings, drawings, and prints from the museum’s collection, as well as loans from 17 museum and private collections in Switzerland and Germany, offer a new perspective on the work of both painters.