After Expressionist, Futurist, and Dadaist beginnings in the artistic work of Otto Dix, around 1921 there is a formal calming-down noticeable. The artist developed his very own critical realism, combining old-masterly technique with biting social criticism, and he became one of the most important protagonists of New Objectivity. Immediately after the National Socialist takeover, he was the first German artist to be dismissed from his academy professorship, in Dresden. He fled with his family to Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance and retreated to Inner Emigration in rural surroundings. Having lost his hitherto most important source of inspiration, the milieu of the big city, he now mainly creates landscape paintings, which are executed in the elaborate glaze technique of old German panel painting. In these compositions, created in his studio, Dix uses seemingly threatening forces of nature to reflect on current political events.
Otto Dix and the New Objectivity
The houses of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Museum Gunzenhauser
The Museum Gunzenhauser houses the collection of the Munich gallery owner Dr. Alfred Gunzenhauser and holds more than 3,000 works by 270 artists, including works of classic modern art and from the second half of the 20th century. The owner is the Gunzenhauser Foundation.
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Admission
General admission 10 Euros, reduced admission 6,50 Euros
For children and adolescents through age 17, as well as for students of the Technical University Chemnitz, holders of a Chemnitzpass, and chaperones to severely handicapped persons, admission is always free.
Tickets
For further information regarding individual and group admission fees and combination tickets valid for more than one of the museums within the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, please see the schedule of fees (Entgeltordnung). -
Combination Ticket – Art Collections at Theaterplatz and Gunzenhauser Museum
From November 4, 2025: general admission 18 euros, reduced admission 12 euros
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Combination Ticket – All Museums Including Rabenstein Castle
From November 4, 2025: general admission 28 euros, reduced admission 19 euros
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Opening hours
February to May 2026: Wed – Sun, public holidays 11 am – 6 pm
from June 2026: Tue – Sun, public holidays 11 am – 6 pm
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Getting there
Stollberger Straße 2, Chemnitz
Getting there from Chemnitz Main Station: tram no. 4 (direction Hutholz) to the Falkeplatz/Museum Gunzenhauser stop -
Barriere·Freiheit
Der barrierefreie Eingang ist Stollberger Straße 2.
Rollstuhl·Nutzer können alle Räume besuchen.Blinden·Hunde und Therapie·Hunde dürfen mit ins Museum.
Für blinde Menschen gibt es einige Tast-Bilder.
