Dr. Mayer-Hermann

Otto Dix · Berlin 1926

This is Dr. Mayer-Hermann — a painting by the German artist Otto Dix, Berlin nineteen twenty-six. Dix was part of the Expressionism movement. Tempera: pigment bound in egg, which dries within minutes and cannot be blended once down. In the picture, look for the portrait of a person.

Medium Oil, tempera, and metal leaf on wood · Dimensions 58 3/4 x 39" (149.2 x 99.1 cm) · Credit Gift of Philip Johnson

Hanging beside it in Gallery 514: Self-Portrait with a Cigarette

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Self-Portrait with a Cigarette, The Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse, Self-Portrait with Palette, Painter [Heinrich Hoerle], The Cross, Mme Kupka among Verticals

More by Otto Dix here: Portrait of Violinist Carlo von Rust (Bildnis des Geigers Carlo von Rust), Street (Strasse)