Otto Dix 1891 1969 Otto Dix was a
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Otto Dix (1891 - 1969) Otto Dix was a German artist, painter and print maker. He was born in 1891 in Untermhaus, Thuringia.
When the First World War erupted, Dix enthusiastically volunteered for the German Army. Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor (Assault under Gas)
“Dead man - St Clement” He said "Obviously, I'm just too curious. I had to see it all with my own eyes - hunger, lice, mud. I had to experience these terrible bottomless depths of life, that's why I went to war voluntarily. "
During the war, Dix kept a diary and a sketchbook where he chronicled his experience. (They provided him with materials for his major work of fifty prints called simply, The War. ) Dix was profoundly affected by the war. “Lens being bombed”
Dance of death 1917 - Dead Man's Hill Dix’s vision sometimes reminds you of nightmare. It is noteworthy that Dix chose to depict not enemy, but German soldiers. His set of 50 engravings entitled War, shocked the public. Instead of exaltation of heroism, he denounced the savagery of destruction.
He was haunted by the brutality of mechanized warfare long after the guns fell silent. Otto Dix, Flandern (Flanders) (after Le Feu by Henri Barbusse), -1936 1934
During World War II Dix was conscripted into the Volkssturm. After the war most of his paintings were religious allegories or depictions of post-war suffering. Self-portrait as a POW, 1947
Dix died on 25 July, 1969. He is buried at Hemmenhofen on the shore of Lake Constance. Self-portrait 1926
