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Otto Dix

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Fan account of Otto Dix, a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of brutality of war. 1891-1969 Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 13h

Totentanz anno 17 (Hohe Toter Mann) www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/totenta…

Totentanz anno 17 (Hohe Toter Mann)

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 17h

Wounded Soldier www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/wounded…

Wounded Soldier

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 22h

Self Portrait with Easel www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/self-po…

Self Portrait with Easel

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nächtliche Begegnung mit einen Irrsinnigen (A Nocturnal Encounter with an Insane Man), plate 22 from Der Krieg (The War) collections.artsmia.org/art/96555

abstracted city landscape with black night sky; thin, dark man with wild eyes and bared teeth in LRC

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Leonie www.moma.org/collection/works/125109

The Associates Fund

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

American Riding Act (Amerikanischer Reitakt) from the portfolio Circus (Zirkus) www.moma.org/collection/works/66959

Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Ruins of Langemarck (Die Trümmer von Langemarck) from The War (Der Krieg) www.moma.org/collection/works/87742

Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Three Wenches www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/three-w…

Three Wenches

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Moon Woman www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/moon-wo…

Moon Woman

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Self-Portrait as a prisoner of war www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/self-po…

Self-Portrait as a prisoner of war

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Still Life with Widow's Veil www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/still-l…

Still Life with Widow's Veil

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Masks as Ruins www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/masks-a…

Masks as Ruins

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Woman with Heron Feather (Dame mit Reiher) from the portfolio Die Schaffenden, vol. 5, no. 1 www.moma.org/collection/works/66988

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lovers www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/lovers

Lovers

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Head Study III collections.artsmia.org/art/13189

Cubist head
Head Study III reveals an artist in his formative years contending with the celebrated creation of a brilliant artist ten years his senior. Here Otto Dix reinterpreted a Cubist sculpture made by Picasso in 1909. Many features are clearly recognizable: the massive waves of hair extending down to the bony ridges of the brow, the sharply defined diamond-shaped eyes, the long nose, the protuberant lips, the knobby chin, and the neck extending from the cowl collar. Dix paid close attention to the play of light over the faceted surface and rendered the form at one-to-one scale (the drawing and sculpture are both sixteen inches tall). What serves as a bit of background landscape is actually a quick notation of the juncture of eyes, nose, and brow. Dix’s study is no coldly analytical examination. He has transformed Picasso’s introverted, meditative sculpture into an alert woman who will not tolerate any funny business. Such sparks of humor animated Dix’s art throughout his career. But he would move far beyond playfulness, propelled to the forefront of social-critical art.

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Second Company Will Be Relieved Tonight (Die II. Kompanie wird heute Nacht abgelöst) from The War (Der Krieg) www.moma.org/collection/works/87737

Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Girl with Pink Rose www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/girl-wi…

Girl with Pink Rose

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Uneven couple www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/uneven-…

Uneven couple

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Self-Portrait (with Cigarette) [Selbstbildnis (mit Zigarette)] from the portfolio 6 Etchings (6 Radierungen) www.moma.org/collection/works/66963

Gift of Samuel A. Berger

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Self-portrait with Marcella www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/self-po…

Self-portrait with Marcella

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

match seller www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/match-s…

match seller

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Relaisposten (Herbstschlacht in der Champagne) (Relay Station [Autumn Battle in Champagne], plate 8 from Der Krieg (The War) collections.artsmia.org/art/96541

man smoking a pipe, huddled under a small tent with a sign printed, "Railais"

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fritz Perls www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/fritz-p…

Fritz Perls

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Granattrichter mit Blumen (Frühling 1916) (Grenade Trench with Flowers [Spring 1916]), plate 24 from Der Krieg (The War) collections.artsmia.org/art/96557

deep trench with blooming flowers around its edge; other trenches in background

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Verwundeter (Herbst 1916, Bapaume) (Wounded Man [Spring 1916, Bapaume]), plate 6 from Der Krieg (The War) collections.artsmia.org/art/96527

horrified man with eyes and mouth open wide, clutching his PL shoulder; large bleeding wound in PL arm
Published in Berlin in 1924 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the mobilization of German forces during the First World War (1914-18), Otto Dix's celebrated print cycle Der Krieg presents the ugly realities of modern warfare in horrific detail. The portfolio features 50 intaglio plates, whose subjects arose from Dix's own wartime experiences and memories of the ravages of combat and its aftermath. Dix had enthusiastically volunteered for service in the German army in 1915 and had fought in an artillery regiment and as a machine gunner on the Western front, including the infamous Battle of the Somme, where Allied and German forces suffered more than one million causalities. Wounded several times himself, Dix was deeply traumatized by his experiences and suffered recurring nightmares for the rest of his life. At the same time, Dix was fascinated by the experience of war, especially the psychological truths of human conflict. He explores these truths through the morbid realism of his depictions. Dix consciously modeled Der Krieg on Francisco Goya's equally famous print cycle Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), which recounted the travesties of Napoleon's invasion of Spain during the Peninsular War of 1808 to 1814. Like Goya, Dix produced his images in intaglio, a medium perfectly suited for the lush textures and meticulous detail he sought to create. As a result, despite their horrific content, the prints possess an aesthetic quality that Dix exploited through his skillful use of etching, drypoint and aquatint techniques. Dix, who in the years following the First World War became one of the preeminent proponents of the social realist movement Neue Sachlicgkeit (New Objectivity), was relentless in exposing life's absurdities and contradictions. One of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art, Der Krieg is a fundamental examination of humanity's capacity for brutality, and remains one of the most powerful anti-war statements ever made.

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Plague German www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/plague-…

Plague German

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia Von Harden www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/portrai…

Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia Von Harden

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cats (Katzen) from the portfolio Nine Woodcuts (Neun Holzschnitte) www.moma.org/collection/works/70402

Given anonymously

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Zerfallender Kampfgraben (Destroyed Combat Trench), plate 9 from Der Krieg (The War) collections.artsmia.org/art/96542

trench with bones and skulls, bits of clothing, bodies and body parts

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Skull (Schädel) from The War (Der Krieg) www.moma.org/collection/works/63262

Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Flanders www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/flanders

Flanders

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Vanitas (Youth and Old Age) www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/vanitas…

Vanitas (Youth and Old Age)

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Old Couple www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/old-cou…

Old Couple

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shock Troops Advance under Gas www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/shock-t…

Shock Troops Advance under Gas

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mrs. Otto Mueller (Frau Otto Mueller) www.moma.org/collection/works/62295

Purchase Fund

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dr. Mayer-Hermann www.moma.org/collection/works/78331

Gift of Philip Johnson

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reclining Nude www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/reclini…

Reclining Nude

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apotheosis www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/apotheo…

Apotheosis

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Front-line Soldier in Brussels (Frontsoldat in Brüssel) from The War (Der Krieg) www.moma.org/collection/works/87749

Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Toter im Schlamm (Dead Man in Mud), plate 23 from Der Krieg (The War) collections.artsmia.org/art/96556

reclining figure with PL forearm up; arm and face covered with white blotches

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Portrait of Poet Ivar von Lücken www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/portrai…

Portrait of Poet Ivar von Lücken

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Procuress (Kupplerin) www.moma.org/collection/works/105745

Riva Castleman Endowment Fund

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nocturnal Encounter with a Lunatic www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/nocturn…

Nocturnal Encounter with a Lunatic

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wounded man fleeing www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/wounded…

Wounded man fleeing

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

American Riders (Amerikanische Reitakt) www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

American Riders (Amerikanische Reitakt)

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Dancer Anita Berber www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/the-dan…

The Dancer Anita Berber

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Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Felixmüller Family www.slam.org/collection/objects/134…

The Felixmüller Family

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unknown www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/wilhelm…

Unknown

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Self-Portrait www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/self-po…

Self-Portrait

Otto Dix @otto-dix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Working Class Boy www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix/working…

Working Class Boy