The somber, even angry, Women of the Depressed 1930s

1930 Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch (Austrian artist, 1898-1937) Portrait of the Mother

Felice Casorati (1883 –1963) Daphne a  Pavarolo 1934

1930 Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Portrait of Signora Vighi

1930 Josef Scharl (German painter, 1896-1954) Street Scene in Paris

1930 Manfred Hirzel (German artist, 1905-1932) Melitta

Karl Hubbuch (German artist, 1891–1979) Theater Loge c 1930

1931 Antonio Donghi (Italian Painter, 1897-1963) Portrait of a Woman in Hat

1931 Otto Dix (German Expressionist painter, 1891-1969) Woman with Red Hair

1932 Amedeo Bocchi (Italian artist, 1883–1932)

1932 Conrad Felixmüller, Bildnis Frau Sofie Isakowitz

1932 Conrad Felixmüller (German Expressionist painter, 1897-1977) A Russian Imigrant from Baku (Frau Ginda Krettingen)

1932 Max Beckmann (German Expressionist Painter, 1884-1950) Quappi in Pink

1933 Karl Hubbuch (German artist, 1891–1979) Afternoon Tea

1935 Antonio Berni (Argentine artist, 1905-1981) Woman in Red Sweater

1935 Doris Clare Zinkeisen (British artist, 1898-1991) Self-Portrait

1935 Marcello Dudovich (Italian artist, 1878-1962] Ritratto di signora

1935 Werner Schramm (German artist, 1898-1970) Portrait of a Lady on the Pont des Arts

1937 Rita Angus, Self-portrait

1938 Diego Rivera, Portrait of Lupe Marín

1939 Paul Citroen (German-born Dutch artist, 1896-1983) Portray of Corry Mohlenfeldt

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