MATCH Otto Dix and the Art of Portraiture 1 December 2007 - 6 April 2008 Nothing fascinates and captivates our attention as strongly as the sight of another person. Through the comparison with others, we recognize ourselves. Portrait pain-ting is thus one of the oldest forms of art. An Egyptian mummy portrait from the first century forms the prelude to the exhibition »Match. Otto Dix and the Art of Portraiture« in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The focal point, however, is one of the most unerring portraitists of the twentieth century: displayed on more than 1,000 square meters are sixty-five paintings by Otto Dix, including forty works on loan from muse-ums such as the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden. With this show, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart with its worldwide most important Otto Dix collection puts his portrait art at the center of a large exhibition for the first time. The exhibition juxtaposes the works of Otto Dix with eighty-eight additional portraits by artists from Lucas Cranach to Andy Warhol. The encounter with pain-tings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Erich Heckel, and Francis Bacon and works by contemporary artists such as Duane Hanson, Gerhard Richter, or Wolfgang Tillmanns illuminates the significance of the portraitist Otto Dix over time. As the major sponsor and through donations and loans, the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) strongly supports the Otto Dix collection of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. As the main sponsor for the exhibition »Match. Otto Dix and the Art of Portraiture«, the LBBW shows further engagement. Otto Dix, »Bildnis des Schauspielers Heinrich George«, 1932, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007