Today, I went to the Musee Unterlinden in Colmar to revisit Matthias Grünewald's extraordinary Isenheim Altar from the 1510s. The museum now has a newer section that includes work from the 20th and 21st centuries. After I had spent an extra-long time contemplating Grünewald's "Annunciation", I was struck by a 20th-century painting that I immediately recognized as another "Annunciation". The style was familiar, and it turned out to be a 1950 painting by Otto Dix, whose work from the 1920s I have often seen before. And the museum also had Dix's 1946 "Crucifixion", another echo of Grünewald. As I learned, Dix was a POW in a camp near Colmar in 1945-1946. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 12 March 2025)
Matthias Grünewald, “Annunciation”
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| Otto Dix, “Annunciation" |
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| Matthias Grünewald, “Crucifixion" |
Otto Dix, “Christ on the Cross"
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