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Otto Dix

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Fan account of Otto Dix, a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of brutality of war.
1891-1969
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Child with Doll http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78650

December 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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The Sleepers of Fort Vaux (Gas Victims) [Die Schlafenden von Fort Vaux (Gas-Tote)] from The War (Der Krieg) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/87758

December 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM

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Street Noise https://www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/street-noise

December 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM

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Portrait of the Lawyer Dr. Fritz Glaser https://www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/portrait-of-the-lawyer-dr-fritz-glaser

December 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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House Destroyed by Aerial Bombs (Tournai) [Durch Fliegerbomben zerstörtes Haus (Tournai)] from The War (Der Krieg) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63265

December 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM

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Madame Leonie https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/20350/

December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Nächtliche Begegnung mit einen Irrsinnigen (A Nocturnal Encounter with an Insane Man), plate 22 from Der Krieg (The War) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/96555/

abstracted city landscape with black night sky; thin, dark man with wild eyes and bared teeth in LRC

December 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM

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Wounded Man Fleeing (Battle of the Somme, 1916) (Fliehender Verwundeter [Sommeschlacht 1916]) from The War (Der Krieg) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/87729

December 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM

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Trichterfeld bei Dontrien, von Leuchtkugeln erhellt (Field of Craters near Dontrien, Illuminated by Rocket Flares), plate 4 from Der Krieg (The War) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/96525/

dark night landscape filled with craters in white

December 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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Stormtruppe geht unter Gas vor (Storm Troops Advance under a Gas Attack), plate 12 from Der Krieg (The War) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/49646/

December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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Portrait of Otto Freundlich (Bildnis Otto Freundlich) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/70675

December 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM

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Lens wird mit Bomben belegt (Lens is Destroyed by Bombing), plate 33 from Der Krieg (The War) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/96566/

plane flying low over a narrow street, with tops of buildings crumbling; wide-eyed people fleeing in bottom corners, others lying in street
Published in Berlin in 1924 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the mobilization of German forces during the First World War (1914-18), Otto Dix's celebrated print cycle Der Krieg presents the ugly realities of modern warfare in horrific detail. The portfolio features 50 intaglio plates, whose subjects arose from Dix's own wartime experiences and memories of the ravages of combat and its aftermath. Dix had enthusiastically volunteered for service in the German army in 1915 and had fought in an artillery regiment and as a machine gunner on the Western front, including the infamous Battle of the Somme, where Allied and German forces suffered more than one million causalities. Wounded several times himself, Dix was deeply traumatized by his experiences and suffered recurring nightmares for the rest of his life. At the same time, Dix was fascinated by the experience of war, especially the psychological truths of human conflict. He explores these truths through the morbid realism of his depictions. Dix consciously modeled Der Krieg on Francisco Goya's equally famous print cycle Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), which recounted the travesties of Napoleon's invasion of Spain during the Peninsular War of 1808 to 1814. Like Goya, Dix produced his images in intaglio, a medium perfectly suited for the lush textures and meticulous detail he sought to create. As a result, despite their horrific content, the prints possess an aesthetic quality that Dix exploited through his skillful use of etching, drypoint and aquatint techniques. Dix, who in the years following the First World War became one of the preeminent proponents of the social realist movement Neue Sachlicgkeit (New Objectivity), was relentless in exposing life's absurdities and contradictions. One of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art, Der Krieg is a fundamental examination of humanity's capacity for brutality, and remains one of the most powerful anti-war statements ever made.

December 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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Crucifixion (Kreuzigung) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/87116

December 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM

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Portrait of Otto Klemperer (Bildnis Otto Klemperer) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/65899

December 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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Wounded man fleeing https://www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/wounded-man-fleeing

December 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM

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Three Wenches https://www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/three-wenches

December 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM

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Gefunden beim Grabendurschstich (Auberive) (Discovered During Trench Break-Through [Auberive]), plate 29 from Der Krieg (The War) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/96562/