Portrait of Violinist Carlo von Rust (Bildnis des Geigers Carlo von Rust)

Otto Dix · 1920

This one's called Portrait of Violinist Carlo von Rust (Bildnis des Geigers Carlo von Rust) — a drawing by Dix, nineteen twenty. Watercolour, where the paper does the lightening — there is no white paint, only the sheet showing through.

Medium Pencil and watercolor on paper · Dimensions 24 1/2 x 19 3/8" (62.2 x 49.2 cm) · Credit Purchase

Hanging beside it in Gallery 514: The Architect [Hans Poelzig], And / lead / us not / into temptation (und führe / uns nicht / in Versuchung) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Self-Portrait with Palette, Painter [Heinrich Hoerle], Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890, Self-Portrait with a Cigarette, Self-Portrait I, Portrait of Maria Lani

More by Otto Dix here: Dr. Mayer-Hermann, Street (Strasse)