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Otto Dix
Early Life, Family and Artistic Training Untermhaus, Germany, 2 December 1891. The environment shaping Otto Dix is one of stark industrial labor and quiet, poetic undertones. His father, Franz Dix, works in an iron foundry, a setting defined by heavy toil. His mother, Louise, a seamstress, carries a history of writing poetry. This domestic landscape provides the first, subtle friction between the grit of manual labor and the impulse to
ward creative expression. The path toward professional training begins in 1906. Dix enters an apprenticeship under the painter Carl Senff, a period of study that lasts until 1910. This formative training moves him away from the domestic sphere and into the technical discipline of the craft. By 1910, he moves to Dresden to enter the Kunstgewerbeschule, the institution known today as the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. His early focus rem…