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DIX, Otto
German 1891-1969

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Artist Information Sources:

• A Visual Dictionary of Art, New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT, 1974.
• Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler des XX. Jarhrhunderts, Hans Vollmer. Leipzig: Seemann, 1953-1962. 6 vols.
• American Prints and Printmakers, 1900 to the present, Una E. Johnson, Doubleday, New York, 1980.
• Artists as Illustrators, an international directory with signatures and monograms, 1800-present, John Castagno, Scarecrow Press, formerly in Metuchen, NJ, now in Lanham, MD, 1989.
• Contemporary Artists, Naylor / Colin / & Genesis P-Orridge, St. Martin's Press, New York City, 1979.
• Davenport's Art Reference & Price Guide, Gordon's Art Reference, Inc., Phoenix, AZ.
• Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs (ten volumes), E. Bénézit, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1976. 10 vols.
• European Artists: Signatures and Monograms, 1800-1900, John Castagno, Scarecrow Press, formerly in Metuchen, NJ, now in Lanham, MD, 1990.
• Great Magazine Covers of the world, Patricia Frantz Kery, Abbeville Press, New York 1982.
• Index to Artistic Biography, Volumes I & II, 1973 and Supplement, 1981, Patricia Pate Havlice, Scarecrow Press, formerly in Metuchen, NJ, now in Lanham, MD.
• Mallett's Index of Artists, international-biographical, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, R. R. Bowker, Co. New York, with Supplement; both reprinted 1948.
• Phaidon Dictionary of 20th Century Art, Phaidon, Oxford, 1973.
• Political Graphics, Robert Philippe, Abbeville Press, New York; first published in Italian in Milan, "II Linguaggio della Grafica Politica" by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., 1980.
• W. O. Dresslers Kunsthandbuch. 2 Bde. Halle, Berlin 1930 bis 34.
  

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