Otto Dix served as a machine gunner in World War I and returned to the experience throughout his career. His brutally exact portraits and the print cycle Der Krieg made him a defining figure of New Objectivity.
Painting; drawing; printmaking
Major Works
- 1920The Skat Players
- 1920War Cripples
- 1926Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden
- 1924Der Krieg (The War)
- 1920–23The Trench
- 1927–28Metropolis Triptych
- 1925Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber
- 1922To Beauty
- 1933Seven Deadly Sins
- 1934–36Flanders
Interviews & Writing
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