Otto Dix - Adolf Dietrich: Two painters on Lake Constance

As the crow flies, both painters lived just three kilometers apart on Lake Constance: Adolf Dietrich from his birth in Berlingen in the canton of Thurgau, and Otto Dix, defamed by the National Socialists, from the mid-1930s in Hemmenhofen on the German side of the lake. Both artists found their motifs in the scenes and landscapes around Lake Constance. It is not known whether Dix and Dietrich ever visited each other, but they were aware of each other. How did the two artists differ in their approach? How did their origins influence them and how did they reflect the upheavals and changes of their time? The exhibition aims to find answers to such questions. Around 100 paintings, drawings and prints from the museum's own collection as well as important loans from 17 renowned museum and private collections in Switzerland and Germany provide a new perspective on the work of the two painters. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication published by Deutscher Kunstverlag with 87 illustrations of works by both artists from all their creative years.