Otto Dix

allusion

The name [Lustmord] in German translates as “lust murder” and alludes to a painting tradition in Weimar-era Germany, in which artists like Otto Dix and George Grosz painted scenes of rape and mutilated female bodies that captured the amorality of the interwar period.

birth

Otto Dix was born in Untermhaus, Germany, now a part of the city of Gera, Thuringia.

death

Dix died on 25 July 1969 after a second stroke in Singen am Hohentwiel. He is buried at Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance.

engraving

Stormtroopers Advance Under a Gas Attack

portrait

random

Lord of the Sabbath

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Wikipedia

Otto Dix (Wikipedia) Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈʔɔtoː ˈdɪks]; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.

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