Blinder (Blind Man)

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, lower right: DIX [? illeg.]; numbered, in graphite, lower left: 56/66; inscribed, in graphite, bottom left: Blinder; inscribed, in image, center: blind

Label

Here, a World War I veteran wears a sign indicating his blindness as he begs from passersby. In the center of the image, the stark white of the sign stands out from the heavily shadowed man behind it. This image invites us to consider why people beg on the streets and how we respond to beggars with varying markers of physical or mental difference. Dix frequently depicted the costs of the war in Germany. To what extent is this work a comment on government inaction in the face of homeless and indigent veterans?

From the 2021 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 103, Images of Disability, curated by Maeve McBride '20, Conroy Intern

Course History

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012

FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012

FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014

WRIT 5, Human Rights, Global to Local, Peggy Baum, Winter 2014

GEOG 17, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Patricia Lopez, Spring 2015

GEOG 17, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Patricia Lopez, Spring 2015

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020

GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020

GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Winter 2021

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021

GERM 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2022

GERM 7.07, Babylon Berlin, Veronika Fuechtner, Spring 2022

German 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2024

German 3.02, Introductory German (cont.), Heidi Denzel, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 57, Perspectives on War, Eleanor Stoltzfus, Class of 2010, Class of 1954 Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 5-July 18, 2010.

A Space for Dialogue, Images of Disability, Maeve McBride, Dartmouth Class of 2020, Conroy Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 9–December 19, 2021.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17, 2000-January 14, 2001.

Publication History

Eleanor Stolzfus, A Space for Dialogue 57, Perspectives on War, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2010, ill. title page.

Provenance

Susan Schulman Printseller; Charles M. Young, Fine Prints & Drawings, Glastonbury, Connecticut; sold to present collection, 1999.

Catalogue Raisonne

Karsch 52

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