Otto Dix

Otto Dix (1891-1969), German painter and etcher, who was a leader of Social Realism in Germany after World War I. Horrified by the brutalities of gas and trench warfare, he pictured those subjects with merciless clarity in War (1924), a series of 50 etchings. As a leader of the Neue Sachlichkeit (“new objectivity”) movement, he expressed his disgust with the social injustice of post-war Germany in bitterly satirical works, in which strained contours and sour colours create a feeling of bluntly repellent realism.