Otto Dix, Der Krieg (book)
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Otto Dix, Der Krieg (book)

$166.00

by Jentsch
ISBN 9789053253571

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Otto Dix, Der Krieg (book) by Ralph Jentsch. Edition in French, Dutch and German. Exhibitions International, 2013. Very good condition. 192 pages. Hardcover. Large format.

This catalogue presents the fifty etchings from the portfolio Der Krieg (The War) by Otto Dix (1891-1969), published in 1924 by the gallery owner Karl Nierendorf and constituting a rare example of artistic testimony to the war. Voluntarily enlisted in the German army at the age of 23, Otto Dix spent more than three years in the trenches and experienced the trauma of the conflict at the forefront. After studying the masters of graphic arts in Basel – he had asked to see originals by Urs Graf, Jacques Callot and Francisco Goya.

Otto Dix translates his own experience into a series of great aesthetic richness. In it, he addresses the different aspects of the life of soldiers at the front. Otto Dix spares nothing of the horror of 14-18 in this formidable portfolio, printed in 70 copies, of which he himself ordered the sequence of engravings. Today, Der Krieg is considered, along with Francisco Goya’s The Disasters, as the most convincing testimony on and against war.

“In the same way that the fabric of man changes in a demonic way, one must have observed human beings in the wild to be able to understand them. War is something bestial: hunger, lice, mud, this hellish din. Everything is completely different.” Otto Dix

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