Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great WarBitter Witness is an intensive, factual study of Otto Dix's war-related art. It is the first book to place Dix's etching cycle, Der Krieg, alongside numerous paintings and drawings in the perspective of his war experience on two fronts from mid-1915 to 1918's finale. It includes a full history of the war, the Weimar Republic's socio-political upheavals, and the Nazi years, following Dix and his colleagues, including Kaethe Kollwitz, through the artistic movements and events in the first half of Germany's most turbulent century. |
Contents
Wars Outbreak | 11 |
The Charnel House | 47 |
The Deepening Divide | 79 |
Copyright | |
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Andere Dix anti-war aquatint Army artillery artists Asprey attack August Bapaume barrage battle began Berlin Bitter Wounds British campaign Champagne Conzelmann corpses Critical Critical Realism cultural cycle Dada Dadaists dead death Degenerate Art depicted despite Diary divisions Dix's drawings Dresden dugout early Eastern Front Ernst etching exhibition experience Expressionism Expressionist Eye-Deep in Hell Felixmüller Figure film fire Flanders Fort Vaux Freikorps Futurist German Expressionism German High Command Gibbs graves Grosz guns Hitler Ibid Jünger Käthe Kollwitz Krieg Kunst Langemarck later London Ludendorff machine-gun Man's Land March memories Nazi Neue Sachlichkeit Nierendorf officers Otto Dix Otto Dix Stiftung Painters and Politics painting panel plates Portfolio position postcard postwar Press realistic Reich Reims remained Republic Russian Saxon scene sector Self-Portrait shell soldiers Somme Spartacist style Tahure Tate Gallery tion trenches troops Verdun war's warfare Weimar Weimar Republic Whalen wire World York Ypres Salient