Family by German artist Otto Dix 1891-1969

1921 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Foundry Worker Franz Dix 1862-1942 and Louise Seamstress Amann Dix 1864-1953 - The Artist's Parents 

Otto Dix what famous for his unique & amp; grotesque style. After volunteering to serve in WWI in 1914, Dix Became anti-war. He did not like the way veterans were Treated upon Their return. In 1924 Dix joined with other artists who had fought in the WWI to put on a traveling Exhibition of Paintings called No More War!  In 1933 Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany. Hitler & amp; his Nazi government disliked Dix's anti-military paintings arranging for him to be dismissed from his position as art tutor at the Dresden Academy. Dix's dismissal letter said that his work "threatened to sap the will of the German people to defend Themselves." In 1939, Dix what Arrested & amp; charged with involvement in a plot on Hitler's life. Hey what Eventually released & amp; the charges were dropped. In the WWII, Dix what conscripted into the Volkssturm, the German Home Guard. And at the end of the war in 1945 Dix what forced to join the German Army, where he captured what & amp; put into a prisoner-of-war camp. Released in 1946, Dix returned to Dresden, a city indeed had been destroyed by heavy bombing Virtually. Although Hitler's Nazi regime destroyed many of Otto Dix's works, many can be seen resting in museum Throughout the world.

Otto Dix (German Expressionist painter, 1891-1969) The Artist's Wife

1920 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Working Class Boy

 1921  Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969)  Woman Doctor Hans Koch. "Doctor" was removed When She Became Mrs. Dix.

1921 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Two Children

1923 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Portrait of Mrs. Martha Dix (Portrait of Mrs. Martha Dix)

1923 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Mother with Child

Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Mother and Child

Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Baby with Umbilical Cord

1924 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Foundry Worker Franz Dix 1862-1942 and Louise Seamstress Amann Dix 1864-1953 - The Artist's Parents

1924 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) The Artist's Daughter Nelly amongst Flowers

1925 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Artist's Daughter Nelly

1925 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) The Lawyer Dr Fritz Glasser Family Portrait

1926 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Hardent

1927 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Newborn Baby on Hands

1927 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) The Artist's Family

1928 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Child with Doll

Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Mother and Child

1928 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Portrait of a Young Girl - Erni

Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Stroll

1928-29 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) The Artist's Son Ursus with Spintop

Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Sunday Stroll

1929 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Children at Play

1930 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Pregnant Woman

1930 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Self Portrait with My Son

1931 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) The Artist's Son Ursus Sitting

1935 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Mother and Eva

1940 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) The Artist's Daughter Nelly as Flora

1942 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Mother with Child Irmgard Bahle

1968 Otto Dix (artist German, 1891-1969) Self Portrait with Marcella

 1923 Otto Dix (German artist, 1891-1969) Self Portrait

On Growing Old...Really Old

. Pierre Auguste Renoir (French artist, 1841-1919) Old Woman, Madame le Coeur


Eighty-Five
by Betty Lockwood

As I grow older, I feel younger
more eager, more full of love.
More alive the closer I move to death.
More whole the closer I move into blight.
The sweeter life grows as fervent
clamors of youth pass.
Passions of old age take deeper
flavor, ripened, more nuanced.
More easily words and affections
flow when the self-conscious gaucherie
of youth has passed.

Wholeness suddenly is mine;
ragged edges of fear hemmed.

Mirrors say Look. Do not
be afraid. You are what you are.

by Betty Lockwood from A Matriach's Song  Peter Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, NH 2001


George Wesley Bellows (American artist, 1882-1925) Aunt Fanny 1920


Christian Seybold (German artist, 1697-1768) Old Woman

Christian von Schneidau (American artist, 1893–1976) Woman Reading

Henry-Jules-Jean Geoffroy (French genre painter 1853-1924) Old Woman’s Head

Women in veils 1880s-1930s

Pierre Auguste Renoir (French painter, 1841-1919) Madame Darras as a Horsewoman


Women have been wearing veils since at least the 13th century B.C. in Assyria. Classical Greek & Hellenistic statues sometimes depict Greek women with both their head & face covered by a veil.  Statues of Persian elite women from Persepolis show examples of some women wearing veils & some without.  Here are a few from the 19th & early 20th century, which I find fascinating.

 Emily Eastman (Loudon New Hampshire 1804-c 1841) Woman in Veil c 1825

Louis Anquetin (French artist, 1861–1932) Woman on the Champs-Elysees by Night 1890

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish artist, 1860-1920) In mourning, 1880

Louis Anquetin (French artist, 1861–1932) Two Woman 1892

Alice Pike Barney (American artist, 1857-1931) Self Portrait

Jozsef Rippl-Ronai (Hungarian artist, 1861-1927) Mme Mazet 1896

Mary Cassatt (American-born artist, 1844-1926) Woman Arranging Her Veil 1886

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French painter, 1841-1919), Jeune femme à la voilette

Louis Anquetin (French artist, 1861–1932) Woman with a Veil 1890

Edmund Tarbell (American painter, 1862-1938) The Blue Veil 1899

Joseph DeCamp (American artist, 1858-1923) Pink Feather Brown Veil 1908

Gustav Klimt (Austrian Symbolist painter, 1862-1918) Girl With Blue Veil, 1902

Edmund Tarbell (American painter, 1862-1938) Summer Breeze 1904

Gustave Van de Woestijne (Belgian artist, 1881-1947) Les deux printemps

Pierre Bonnard (French painter, 1867-1947) Woman in a Veil c 1917

Henri Matisse (French artist, 1919-1942)  The Spaniard 1928

Rudolf Wacker (Austrian painter, 1893 -1939) Ilse Wacker with Mask, 1925

Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings (British artist 1901-1990) Untitled, 1934

 Thomas William Roberts (English-born Australian artist, 1856-1931) Portrait of Florence, 1898

Jean-Louis Forain (French artist, 1852-1931) Head of a Woman with a Veil

Henri Matisse (French artist, 1919-1942) Woman with a Veil

Alice Pike Barney (American artist, 1857–1931) Dream Book

Tamara de Lempicka (Polish Art Deco artist, Russia 1898–1980 Mexico) (Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Gorska) La Couronne de Fleurs II, 1932

My favorite landscape from Jean Édouard Vuillard 1868-1940

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Breton Landscape, Saint-Jacut

Swiss artist Félix Edouard Vallotton 1865-1925 paints traditional Portraits

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1884 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Artist's Mother

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1886 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Juliette Lacour

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1886 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Artist's Parents

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1892 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Invalid

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1902 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Workshop with my Wife

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1904 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) womn Reading at the Window

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1906 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Melot Martha wife of Alfred Natanson

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1907 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Gertrude Stein

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1908 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Gabrielle Valloton

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1908 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Mrs Hasen

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1909 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) At the Cafe

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1911 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Coquettery

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1911 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Seated Black Woman

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1911 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Young Woman with Yellow Scarf

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1912 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Children of Hans and Lisa Hanloser

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1913 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Yellow Sheet