Blinder (Blind Man)
Otto Dix, German, 1891 - 1969
1923
Lithograph on paper
56/66
Image: 19 1/8 × 14 13/16 in. (48.5 × 37.6 cm)
Sheet: 25 1/2 × 19 13/16 in. (64.8 × 50.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund
PR.999.38
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: DIX [? illeg.]; numbered, in graphite, lower left: 56/66; inscribed, in graphite, bottom left: Blinder; inscribed, in image, center: blind
Label
Here, a World War I veteran wears a sign indicating his blindness as he begs from passersby. In the center of the image, the stark white of the sign stands out from the heavily shadowed man behind it. This image invites us to consider why people beg on the streets and how we respond to beggars with varying markers of physical or mental difference. Dix frequently depicted the costs of the war in Germany. To what extent is this work a comment on government inaction in the face of homeless and indigent veterans? From the 2021 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 103, Images of Disability, curated by Maeve McBride '20, Conroy Intern
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012
FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
WRIT 5, Human Rights, Global to Local, Peggy Baum, Winter 2014
GEOG 17, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Patricia Lopez, Spring 2015
GEOG 17, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Patricia Lopez, Spring 2015
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Winter 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
GERM 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2022
GERM 7.07, Babylon Berlin, Veronika Fuechtner, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 57, Perspectives on War, Eleanor Stoltzfus, Class of 2010, Class of 1954 Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 5-July 18, 2010.
A Space for Dialogue, Images of Disability, Maeve McBride, Dartmouth Class of 2020, Conroy Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 9–December 19, 2021.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17, 2000-January 14, 2001.
Publication History
Eleanor Stolzfus, A Space for Dialogue 57, Perspectives on War, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2010, ill. title page.
Provenance
Susan Schulman Printseller; Charles M. Young, Fine Prints & Drawings, Glastonbury, Connecticut; sold to present collection, 1999.
Catalogue Raisonne
Karsch 52
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