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Soldiers Shot to Pieces, from War
Otto Dix1924
- Attribution
- Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969) published by Verlag Karl Nierendorf/Galerie Nierendorf (German)
- Medium
- Drypoint and aquatint on cream wove paper
- Physical dimensions
- Plate: 14.3 × 20.1 cm (5 11/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Sheet: 47.5 × 35.3 cm (18 3/4 × 13 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Margaret Fisher Endowment
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In a 1966 interview about his work, Otto Dix explained: “The artist wants to work so that others can see what this kind of thing was like. I primarily depicted the horrible consequences of war. I believe no one else has seen the reality of that war as I have: the privations, the wounds, the suffering. I chose truthful reportage of war; I wanted to show the destroyed land, the corpses, the wounds.”
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