Otto Dix
Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dixwas a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth2 December 1891
CityGera, Germany
infamous fame
I will either be famous or infamous.
portraiture portraits paint
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
dream men years
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
war people suffering
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
war depth reason
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
desire painting reason remember seen
Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.