Otto Dix Author:Olaf Peters This generously illustrated monograph on — Otto Dix presents the work of the controversial — German artist renowned for his unflinching — portrayal of life during war time and the — aftermath of violence. The celebrated German artist Otto Dix, a volunteer for the — German Army during World War I, went on to create some of — the most powerful anti-war ... more »images of the modern age. His
work also includes unsettling depictions of civilian life in the
Weimar Republic following World War I. This book examines
every aspect of Dix s career, from his expressionist work to his
gradual embrace of classically influenced realism. Though
many of Dix s works were destroyed under the Third Reich, a
number of his rarely seen landscapes from that era a genre
forced on him by the Nazi government as well as later works of
religious allegory are included here. The result is a timeline of
artistic development as we witness a master grapple with