Otto Dix – Adolf Dietrich. Two Painters on Lake Constance
The following exhibition took place from April 5 to August 17, 2025 at the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen, Switzerland: Otto Dix – Adolf Dietrich, Two Painters on Lake Constance. This exhibition presented the first juxtaposition of two important proponents of the New Objectivity: Otto Dix (1891–1969) and Adolf Dietrich (1877–1957).
Studio Marlon Ilg was responsible for the exhibition design as well as the accompanying media: exhibition catalog (published by Deutscher Kunstverlag), flyer, poster and tote bag. The overall design was created using HAL Timezone by HAL Typefaces and Dinamo’s ABC Rom.
About the exhibition from the museum’s website:
The two painters lived only a little over three kilometers apart on Lake Constance: Adolf Dietrich since his birth in Berlingen in the canton of Thurgau, and Otto Dix, defamed by the Nazis, from the mid-1930s in Hemmenhofen on the German side of the lake. Both artists found their subjects in the scenes and landscapes around Lake Constance. It is not known whether Dix and Dietrich ever visited each other, but they were aware of each other.
How do these two artistic personalities differ in their approach? How were they influenced by their origins, and how did they reflect the upheavals and changes of their time? The exhibition seeks to answer such questions.
Around 90 paintings, drawings, and prints from the museum’s own collection as well as important loans from 17 renowned museum and private collections in Switzerland and Germany open up a new perspective on the work of these two painters.
