Leda, 1919 Otto Dix In his foreword to the 1919 exhibition catalogue devoted to the group's prints Grohmann introduced Dix this way " Otto Dix appeared at Easter with brutal force, and all sorts of expectations were aroused. At the moment he is laughing heartily at himself, at art, and at...

Dix's Die Skatspieler ( The Skat Players ) of 1920 shows three mutilated veterans, former officers, playing cards in a gaslit pub. So deformed are they by their injuries that they are forced to play with prophetic hands or with their mouths or feet. Little is left of these maimed figures, yet...

Original name " DER KRIEG "

Original Name "Krieger mit Pfeife"

Original name "Selbstbildnis als Soldat" Otto Dix (December 2, 1891 - July 25, 1969) was a German expressionist and anti-war painter and a veteran of the First World War. His most famous paintings were a (1928) triptych Metropolis and Trench Warfare (1932). Otto Dix was born in Untermhaus,...