The Art of War Otto Dix’s Der Krieg [War] cycle 1924
National Gallery of Australia: 17 December 2005 – 30 April 2006
Otto Dix 'Zerfallender Kampfgraben [Collapsed trenches]' 1924 etching, aquatint, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia, The Poynton Bequest 2003 © Otto Dix, Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia
Otto Dix was born in 1891 in Untermhausen, Thuringia the son of an ironworker. He initially trained in Gera and at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts as a painter of wall decorations and later taught himself how to paint on canvas. He volunteered as a machine-gunner during World War I and in the autumn of 1915 he was sent to the Western Front. He was at the Somme during the major allied offensive of 1916. ...
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