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The cellar of the house can be visited during guided tours, the walls of which were painted by Otto Dix and some of his guests at a carnival festival in 1966. A media guide leads through the individual rooms and provides information on works of art and the family life of the Dix family. An eight hectare garden with terraces and a museum café complete the ensemble.
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The focus of the permanent exhibition is the family life of the artist household. Paintings and graphics by Otto Dix are shown in annually changing exhibitions. Images on the walls refer to the works that once hung in the house and can now be found in various museums and collections around the world.
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and funded by the Otto-Dix-Haus-Stiftung, refurbished in accordance with listed buildings and equipped as a museum. In 2013 the association handed over the house to the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, which now owns one of the most important Dix collections. In June 2013 it reopened as the Museum Haus Dix, a
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The studio windows on the east side, the surrounding balcony and numerous windows with a view of the lake are characteristic of the generously designed three-storey house with almost 400 m of floor space. The kitchen, dining and living rooms as well as the music room are on the ground floor. The
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first floor was chosen for Otto Dix's studio and Martha Dix's salon; for the rooms of the children Nelly (1923–1955), Ursus (1927–2002) and Jan Dix (1928–2019) the second floor. Otto Dix lived and worked here until his death, in 1969, and increasingly devoted his work to the landscape of the
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Two years before her death, the widow handed over the house in Hemmenhofen, which belonged to her all her life, and the rights to her husband's estate, to the Otto Dix Foundation, which was founded in 1983, and whose partners were her two sons and granddaughter Bettina Dix-Pfefferkorn.
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After Otto Dix lost his chair at the Dresden Art Academy in 1933, he and his family initially found accommodation in Randegg Castle until 1936. Thanks to an inheritance, Martha Dix, Otto Dix's wife, was able to purchase a plot of land on a hill on the
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peninsula in Hemmenhofen, to build a house there. The house was designed according to plans by the Dresden architect Arnulf Schelcher. In 1936 the family moved into their new home opposite the Swiss bank.
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Museum Haus Dix at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Official Website (German)
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Dorothee Schöpfer, "Bericht zur Wiedereröffnung des Otto-Dix-Hauses",
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to live with her granddaughter Bettina until her death in 1985.
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Museum Haus Dix. Eine Einrichtung des Kunstmuseums Stuttgart
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View of the Museum Haus Dix, with the terrace and the garden
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is the former studio and home of the German painter
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Otto Dix
Hemmenhofen
Gaienhofen
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Untersee
Lake Constance
Höri
Lake Constance
France
Baden-Württemberg
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Museum Haus Dix at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Official Website (German)
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Otto Dix
The Match Seller
Prague Street
The Skat Players
To Beauty
The Trench
Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber
The Art Dealer Alfred Flechtheim
Hugo Erfurth with Dog
Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden
Metropolis
The War
Stormtroopers Advance Under a Gas Attack

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