Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Experiment; a Journal of Russian Culture
Angaben zur Quelle:
9 (2003) 177-202
Keywords:
Dix, Otto,
;
Grosz, George,
;
Antisemitism in art
;
Jewish art
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Examines the conflicted attitudes of intellectuals and artists of the Center and the Left toward the "Jewish question" through analysis of the visual works of Grosz and Dix, two well-known Weimar artists. Although they had many Jewish friends, like-minded comrades, and benefactors, and they showed appreciation for the Jewish intellectual, both men shared many commonplace anti-Jewish beliefs and stereotypes with the Center and Left. They directed sarcasm at the wealthy Jew, whom they equated with capitalists. Both Dix and Grosz, like their German contemporaries, regarded even converts with Jewish origins as Jews. In their works, wealthy Jews are depicted with exaggerated "Semitic" features, not much different from right-wing antisemitic cartoons. Compares Dix's and Grosz's depictions of the wealthy Jew with that of Tucholsky, who himself was of Jewish origin. Contends that the leftist ambivalence concerning Jews peculiar to Dix and Grosz cannot be conflated with Nazi antisemitism.
Note:
With plates (pp. 191-202).
,
Apepared also in "Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture" (2010) 167-192.
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