"The war was a horrible thing, but there was something tremendous about it too. I didn’t want to miss it at any price. You have to have seen human beings in this unleashed state to know what human nature is… I need to experience all the depths of life for myself, that’s why I go out, and that’s why I vontunteered." - Otto Dix, from Matthias Eberle, World War I and the Weimar Artists: Dix, Grosz, Beckmann, Schlemmer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985).


Otto Dix, A Dead Horse, 1924.


Otto Dix, Flanders, 1934-36.

 

Otto Dix, Storm Troopers during a Gas Attack, 1924.

 

Otto Dix, Mealtime in the Trenches, 1923-24.