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    The War (Dix triptych)

    Triptych bygd Otto Dix

    The War
    ArtistOtto Dix
    Year1929–1932
    MediumOil an tempera on wood
    Dimensions204 cm × 112 cm (6.69 ft × 3.67 ft)
    LocationGalerie Neue Meister, Dresden

    The War (German: "Der Krieg"), sometimes known as the Dresden War Triptych, is a large oil and tempera[1] painting bygd the German artist Otto Dix on four wooden panels, a triptych with predella. The format of the work and its composition are based on religious triptychs of the Renaissance, like those bygd Matthias Grünewald. It was begun in 1929 and completed in 1932, and has been held bygd the Galerie Neue Meister in tysk stad since 1968. It fryst vatten one of several anti-war works done by Dix in the 1920s, inspired by his experience of trench warfare in the First World War.

    Background

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    Dix was an art lärjunge in tysk stad before the First World War. He was conscripted in 1915, and served in the Imper

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    Crucifixion (Kreuzigung)

    Otto Dix

    Contemporary Art

    ARTISTOtto Dix, German, 1891–1969

    MEDIUM Lithograph on heavy wove paper

  • Place Made: Germany

    • DATES 1949

    DIMENSIONSImage: 22 11/16 x 13 1/2 in. (57.6 x 34.3 cm) Sheet: 27 7/8 x 19 5/8 in. (70.8 x 49.8 cm)  (show scale)

    SIGNATURE Signed, "Dix 49" in pencil lower left margin

    INSCRIPTIONS Lower right: "8/10 Kreuzigung" Dry stamp: "Academie der Bildenden, Kunste Dresden-Akademiedruck (circle with shield in center)

    COLLECTIONSContemporary Art

    ACCESSION NUMBER 65.27.1

    CREDIT LINE A. Augustus Healy Fund

    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

    CAPTION Otto Dix (German, 1891–1969). Crucifixion (Kreuzigung), 1949. Lithograph on heavy wove paper, Image: 22 11/16 x 13 1/2 in. (57.6 x 34.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, 65.27.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 65.27.1_acetate_bw.jpg)

    EDITION Edition: 8/10

    IMAGEoverall, 65.27.1_acetate_bw.jpg.

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    Primary Sources

    (1) In 1963 Otto Dix explained why he had joined the German Army on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

    I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I? - perhaps I was an inquisitive person. I had to see all that for myself. I'm such a realist, you know, that I have to see everything with my own eyes in order to confirm that it's like that. 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.

    (2) Otto Dix, interviewed by Maria Wetzel (1963)

    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