Editing Otto Dix (section)

===Early life and education===
Otto Dix was born in Untermhaus, Germany, now a part of the city of [[Gera]], Thuringia. The eldest son of Franz Dix, an iron foundry worker, and Louise, a seamstress<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.neuegalerie.org/collection/artist-profiles/otto-dix |title=Neue Galerie New York |last=York |first=Neue Galerie New |website=neuegalerie.org |language=en |access-date=25 January 2020}}</ref> who had written poetry in her youth, he was exposed to art from an early age.<ref name="Karcher_21-24">Karcher 1988, pp. 21–24.</ref> The hours he spent in the studio of his cousin, Fritz Amann, who was a painter, were decisive in forming young Otto's ambition to be an artist; he received additional encouragement from his primary school teacher.<ref name="Karcher_21-24" /> Between 1906 and 1910, he served an apprenticeship with painter Carl Senff, and began painting his first [[landscape art|landscape]]s. In 1910, he entered the [[Kunstgewerbeschule]] in [[Dresden]], now the [[Dresden Academy of Fine Arts]], where [[Richard Guhr]] was among his teachers. At that time the school was not a school for the fine arts but rather an academy that concentrated on applied arts and crafts.<ref>''Intransigent Realism: Otto Dix between the World Wars''. Ed. Olaf Peters. (New York: Prestel, 2010) 14.</ref>

The majority of Dix's early works concentrated on landscapes and portraits which were done in a stylized realism that later shifted to expressionism.<ref>Fritz Löffler, ''Otto Dix Life and Work'' (New York: Holmes &amp; Meier Publishers, Inc., 1982) p. 14.</ref>