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18-774: After Otto Dix lost his chair at the Dresden Art Academy in 1933, he and his family initially found accommodation in Randegg Castle until 1936. Thanks to an inheritance, Martha Dix, Otto Dix's wife, was able to purchase a plot of land on a hill on the Untersee , the east part of the Lake Constance , in the Höri peninsula in Hemmenhofen, to build a house there. The house was designed according to plans by

36-678: Is the part between the Mettnau peninsula in the north, the Höri peninsula in the south and the Island of Reichenau in the east. To the west lies the estuary of the Radolfzeller Aach and the Hegau . In the east, there is a small island called Liebesinsel ( lit.   ' Love Island ' ) close to the Mettnau peninsula. The Gnadensee extends from Allensbach in the north and

54-466: Is unlikely to be true. A more probable theory is that the lake is named after Maria, "Our Lady of Mercy", as the church of the abbey on the island was dedicated to St. Mary and St. Mark. The town name Frauenfeld in neighbouring canton of Thurgau can be similarly explained. The Markelfingen Winkel is the western end of the Gnadensee, between Markelfingen in the north, Radolfzell in the west and

72-737: The German state of Baden-Württemberg . In contrast to the Upper Lake , the border between Germany and Switzerland across the Lower Lake is well defined. Municipalities on the Swiss side are Gottlieben , Ermatingen , Salenstein , Berlingen , Steckborn , Mammern , Eschenz and Stein am Rhein . Municipalities on the German side are Öhningen , Gaienhofen , Moos am Bodensee , Radolfzell , Reichenau , Allensbach and Constance . Three parts in

90-548: The Dix family. An eight hectare garden with terraces and a museum café complete the ensemble. 47°40′22″N 8°57′41″E  /  47.67278°N 8.96139°E  / 47.67278; 8.96139 Untersee (Lake Constance) The Untersee ( German for Lower Lake ), also known as Lower Lake Constance , is the smaller of the two lakes that together form Lake Constance . The boundary between Switzerland and Germany runs through it. The lake surrounds several islands,

108-475: The Dresden architect Arnulf Schelcher. In 1936 the family moved into their new home opposite the Swiss bank. The studio windows on the east side, the surrounding balcony and numerous windows with a view of the lake are characteristic of the generously designed three-storey house with almost 400 m of floor space. The kitchen, dining and living rooms as well as the music room are on the ground floor. The first floor

126-520: The Island of Reichenau in the south, from the tip of Mettnau in the west to the Reichenau causeway with its well-visible poplar avenue in the east. According to legend, the name Gnade (English: Mercy or Grace ) of the lake comes from the time when the court house was located on the Island of Reichenau. If a defendant was sentenced to death, the execution of the sentence could not be carried out on

144-681: The Mettnau peninsula in the south. Its eastern boundary is at the level of the summit Mettnauspitze . With its maximum water depth of 16 m, the Markelfingen Winkel is the shallowest part of the lake. It has a tributary: the Mühlbach, which drains the Mindelsee . The mainly Swiss section of the lake south of the Island of Reichenau and its southwestern arm is known as Rheinsee ( lit.   ' Lake Rhine ' ), not to be confused with Seerhein ( lit.   ' Rhine of

162-709: The Otto-Dix-Haus-Stiftung, refurbished in accordance with listed buildings and equipped as a museum. In 2013 the association handed over the house to the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, which now owns one of the most important Dix collections. In June 2013 it reopened as the Museum Haus Dix, a branch of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The focus of the permanent exhibition is the family life of the artist household. Paintings and graphics by Otto Dix are shown in annually changing exhibitions. Images on

180-430: The island, but only on the mainland because the island was "holy ground". Therefore, the condemned man was brought by boat to the mainland in the direction of Allensbach, where the sentence could be Gnade . Now, if the abbot wanted to pardon the condemned, he would ring a bell before the offender arrived on the other shore. This signaled to the executioner on the mainland, that prisoner had been pardoned. However, this story

198-645: The lake(s) ' ), which is the Upper and Lower Lakes connecting segment of the river Rhine). It is called the Seerhein because the current of the river follows exactly this path through the lake to the effluent of Lower Lake Constance in the Swiss town of Stein am Rhein , where the High Rhine starts. At the end of the lake, there are three small islands, called the Werd Islands . Where the Seerhein flows into

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216-668: The largest being Reichenau Island . The Lower Lake Constance measures 63 km (24 sq mi) and is situated about 30 cm (12 in) lower than the Obersee . The Romans called it Lacus Acronius . In the Middle Ages, the Upper Lake was called Bodamicus Lacus , or Bodensee in German. At some point in time, this term began to include the Lower Lake, and a new term "Upper Lake" (in German: Obersee ),

234-402: The north of Lower Lake, surrounded by German territory, have names of their own: Zeller See ( lit.   ' Lake of Radolfzell ' ), Gnadensee ( lit.   ' Lake Mercy ' ) and Markelfinger Winkel ( lit.   ' nook of Markelfingen ' ). The part in the south, which borders Switzerland, is called Rheinsee ( lit.   ' Rhine Lake ' ). The Zeller See

252-684: The transition to the High Rhine ). In the northeast is the peninsula Bodanrück ; in the northwest, the Hegau lowlands with the peninsula Mettnau ; in the west, the peninsula Höri , with a mountain called Schiener Berg , and in the south, the Seerücken , which reaches more than 90 m (300 ft) feet above the Untersee near Berlingen . Bordering the Lower Lake Constance are the Swiss cantons of Thurgau and Schaffhausen and

270-402: The walls refer to the works that once hung in the house and can now be found in various museums and collections around the world. The cellar of the house can be visited during guided tours, the walls of which were painted by Otto Dix and some of his guests at a carnival festival in 1966. A media guide leads through the individual rooms and provides information on works of art and the family life of

288-631: The widow handed over the house in Hemmenhofen, which belonged to her all her life, and the rights to her husband's estate, to the Otto Dix Foundation, which was founded in 1983, and whose partners were her two sons and granddaughter Bettina Dix-Pfefferkorn. The house and garden were registered in the Baden-Württemberg monuments book in 2005. The museum was redesigned by the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and funded by

306-460: Was chosen for Otto Dix's studio and Martha Dix's salon; for the rooms of the children Nelly (1923–1955), Ursus (1927–2002) and Jan Dix (1928–2019) the second floor. Otto Dix lived and worked here until his death, in 1969, and increasingly devoted his work to the landscape of the Lake Constance . Martha Dix stayed until 1979 before moving to the south of France to live with her granddaughter Bettina until her death in 1985. Two years before her death,

324-706: Was introduced for the larger lake. The main tributaries are the Seerhein and Radolfzeller Aach . The source of the latter is the Aachtopf , a karst spring whose waters mainly derive from the Danube Sinkhole , making the Danube indirectly a tributary of Untersee and the Rhine, respectively. The landscape surrounding the Untersee is very diverse. The Untersee contains two islands: Reichenau and Werd (near

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