Otto Brix

Otto Brix (born June 1, 1900 in Hanerau , † May 29, 1971 in Lüneburg ) was a German painter and draftsman .

life and work

The painter Otto Brix, born in Hanerau (Holstein) in 1900 as the son of a businessman, moved to Lüneburg in 1911 and studied at the State Art School in Hamburg from 1918 to 1921 . Otto Brix studied abroad in Berlin (1922) and Paris (1927).

During the Nazi era, Otto Brix's works were classified as "degenerate" by the National Socialists and the artist was banned from painting. He managed to hide his pictures in Lüneburg. After the war, Otto Brix worked alongside his artistic activity as a lecturer in the fine arts and as an art teacher at various educational institutions in Lüneburg.

As a painter, Otto Brix created imaginary landscapes, magical and grotesque, and is considered one of the most unusual and innovative artists in Northern Germany. Otto Brix admittedly adopts different artistic trends, but processes them into an independent style . In doing so, his art eludes a generally applicable art-historical classification in common art terms or trends. Otto Brix Werk is characterized by a highly independent development and authenticity. His artistic development can be traced from early landscapes to late "cosmic images". Brix Kunst does not focus on the rational as a level of understanding, but on aspects such as feeling, longing, width or depth. He creates works with a strongly mystical, metaphysical or meditative reference and a strong suggestive effect of the color.

literature

• Helmut R. Leppien : Introduction, in "Otto Brix, collective exhibition", catalog of the Museum Association for the Principality of Lüneburg (ed.), Lüneburg 1966
• Eckard Michael: "Individuality and intuition - on the pictures of Otto Brix and Ruth Himmelmann", catalog of the Friends of Bardowick Art Friends eV (ed.) For the exhibition of the same name in Bardowick, Bardowick 1992