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 Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

Dead Sentry in the Trench
The Dancer Anita Berber
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
six men standing in a row, with an officer wearing spurs checking a book at L
Self Portrait with Easel
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
fence posts and barbed wire, impaled with bodies and body parts 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.
head and torso of a soldier with gaping jaw and neck wound; other figures' hands visible at edges
heads of two corpses, partially decomposed; body at R wears dog tag
Self-portrait with Marcella
Working Class Boy
Mother and Eva
Portrait of the Painter Franz Radziwill
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Ursus, Sitting
two skulls, an arm and two feet sticking up from the ground in an abstracted landscape
seated soldiers in a dark, barren landscape with a black sky
The sailor
Near Langemarck
Frau Martha Dix
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Family Portrait
abstracted image with dark cross at center; bodies and body parts; round moon (or face?) above cross
Abandoned position near neuville
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Deborah Wye Endowment Fund and The Print Associates Fund
The Declaration of War
Weimar Berlin
Given anonymously
The Felixmüller Family
sketchy head and shoulders of a wide-eyed man with open mouth and bandaged head
Dying Warrior
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Wounded man fleeing
skull with tufts of hair and moustache; worms crawling through eye sockets, nostrils, mouth and hair
two medics trudging through knee-deep water, carrying a man in a sling on a pole
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
trench with bones and skulls, bits of clothing, bodies and body parts
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Portrait of Heinrich George
Gift of Philip Johnson
Disintegrating Trench
Totentanz anno 17 (Hohe Toter Mann)
Plague German
Self-Portrait
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Unknown
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
two bodies hanging out of a hole blown in the corner of a brick building; woman's body with the body of a baby on top of it, LLC; legs at ULC 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.
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
American Riders (Amerikanische Reitakt)
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund