11 November 1918 is the day when the guns finally fell silent in Europe after four years of bloody slaughter - armistice. The soldiers who survived the war were severely scarred, both physically and emotionally. Otto Dix was one of them. Even during the war, he produced numerous works that dealt with the events of the war. In them he shows, often very unsparingly and directly, the immediate consequences of the war for the soldiers.
Dix was one of the few German artists to experience the First World War almost without interruption on the front line. It became increasingly clear to him how much this war destroyed people and society and dragged them into the abyss, a view that also found very clear expression in his work after the end of the war.
@netflix has remade Erich Maria Remarque's "Nothing New in the West", using modern means to give us an impression of the slaughter and death in the steel storm of the bone mill of Verdun, Ypres and so many other places of the First World War.
But nothing prepares us for the immediate ruthlessness and immediacy of Otto Dix's etchings.
The full series of all 50 etchings from the 1924 portfolio "The War" can be seen here, for example:
Museum of Modern Art, New York: www.moma.org/c...
Socks Studio, Paris: socks-studio.c...
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5 окт 2024
