MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - An exhibition "Biblical Subjects: Otto Dix, Salvador Dali and Ernst Fuchs" will be held at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art from June 9 to August 7, said Russia's Museums web site www.museum.ru.

A total of 107 works of art by these three outstanding artists will be shown at the exhibition. Each of the artists pioneered something new in the history of arts of the 20th century. World War I spurred Dix to reconsider modern history and modern art forms. The source for numerous experiments by Dali was the phenomenon of Freudism in the 20th century culture. Reminiscences of the apocalyptic horrors of World War II run through Ernst Fuchs's artwork.

Each author chose his subject from numerous biblical plots. Dix's main subject was the Gospel According to Matthew. Dali chose the Song of Solomon and great books of the European literature that carried on the tradition of religious visionaries. Fuchs chose Genesis and the Book of Judges.

A major painter of German expressionism, Otto Dix (1891-1969) fought in two world wars and created his first religious paintings after he was wounded in 1918. In 1960 he produced a lithographic cycle of the Gospel According of Matthew, which completed the artist's long spiritual search. Dix united the medieval European art experience and modern historical realities.

Salvador Dali (1904-1989), a Spanish surrealist, poet and art theorist, created his first religious works in the 1930s. His cycle of lithographs created in the 1970s and devoted to Milton's Paradise Lost, etchings of the same decade's cycle devoted to the Song of Solomon, as well as biblical watercolors and xylographs will be shown at the exhibition.

The artwork of Ernst Fuchs (1930-), an Austrian artist, poet and founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, absorbed elements of surrealism, Gothic realism and romanticism. The artist studied icon painting and the language of different religions' symbols. Fuchs's lithographs and etchings based on sacral plots and etchings to books of the Old Testament, as well as illustrations to the Holy Bible will be shown at the exhibition.

The exhibition is organized by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russian Academy of Arts and Kunstgalerien Bottingerhaus, Bamberg, Germany.