Otto DIX 1891-1969
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OTTO DIX, AN ARTIST AT THE HEART OF WAR
We present war drawings by Otto Dix.
During the First World War, Dix volunteered for the army and fought on the Champagne front and in the heart of the Battles of the Somme. He wanted to see war and violence with his own eyes.
"I must experience all the depths of life. That's why I joined the war."
He was part of the New Objectivity movement with Grosz; he wanted to show the raw, even sordid, reality. Dix chronicled his experiences on postcards, drawings, and his journal. He viewed the war objectively and sought to experience the conflict as closely as possible to reality.
He returned haunted by the vision of chaos and began a major cycle of engravings on the theme of war in 1924.
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