Portfolio of fifty etching, aquatint, and drypoints, plate each approx. Catalog prints otto dix otto dix the online otto dix. Annette becker is a history professor at the university of paris. Otto dix, artist on the front line the irish times. This is the first plate from dix s series about the great war. She is the author of 1418 and france and the great war.
Otto dix was born in 1891 in untermhaus, thuringia, the son of an ironworker. Dixs work is distinguished by its treatment of war subject matter, emerging in images of destruction, disfigurement, and maiming of the human body that offer an. Histoire des arts histoire des arts troisieme troisieme. Otto dix served as a machine gunner on the front lines of world war i.
The year 2014 will see the centenary of the start of the first world war. No other 20thcentury artist dealt as intensively or as strongly with the first world war than otto dix 18911969. He initially trained in gera and at the dresden school of arts and crafts as a painter of wall decorations and later taught himself how to paint on canvas. He enthusiastically embraced war as an inevitable part of life and a catalyst for change. It has been described as one of the most powerful and the most unpleasant antiwar statements in modern art. Dix sessayera au cubisme, au futurisme et plus tard au dadaisme. Dix opens the series with a reflection on the first rule of battle. Like goyas account of the barbarity of napoleonic invasion and the spanish war of independence 18081814, otto dix exploited the possibility of a long sequence of images and a stark realism. Doc histoire des arts 3 jouassin 20102011 otto dix 18911969 in l. The cycle of 50 etchings that german expressionist otto dix created in 1924 are reproduced in this volume and reflect the antimilitarism and hatred for war that dix expressed after his service in world war i. Dissertations gratuites sur otto dix histoire des arts. Histoire des arts histoire des arts troisieme troisieme troisieme 201620162016 c.
It was called the war and it was modelled on goyas the disasters of war devoted to the spanish war of independence. Il meurt en republique federale dallemagne a singen, le 25 juillet 1969. Dix s work is distinguished by its treatment of war subject matter, emerging in images of destruction, disfigurement, and maiming of the human body that offer an apocalyptic vision of the. He volunteered as a machinegunner during world war i and in the autumn of 1915 he was sent to the western front.