20. Jahrhundert: 1914-1945 | Erster Weltkrieg
The Artist in War – Otto Dix
"The war was a terrible thing, but nevertheless enormous. I couldn’t miss it for the world." Painter Otto Dix eagerly goes to war in 1914. Like many other artists, he too wished to break out of the narrow-minded world of the Empire and gain insight into the darkest abyss of humanity. But disillusionment was quick to follow. He experiences the horror of the material battles to henceforth process the horrors of war in his paintings. They show dead soldiers in barbed wire, those who have gone mad, battlefields as moonscapes. Later, he will say: "I was anxious to depict the war objectively, without arousing pity, without all the propaganda."
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