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View at the museum ↗Wounded Soldier (Autumn 1916, Bapaume), from War
Otto Dix1924
- Attribution
- Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969) published by Verlag Karl Nierendorf/Galerie Nierendorf (German)
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint, with open bite, on cream laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Plate: 19.7 × 29 cm (7 13/16 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 47.5 × 35.3 cm (18 3/4 × 13 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Margaret Fisher Endowment
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This image is one of the most frequently reproduced works from the series War . Otto Dix once again showed his sophisticated use of surface and etching effects. But this work also highlights the unrelenting focus on death and decay that punctuates the folio of prints. In the trench, whether one was alive or dead seems to have made little difference, and the repetition of the grotesque nature of war emphasizes the massive scale of the slaughter as well as the clear antiwar message of War as a whole.
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