In the 1920s, Otto Dix was the artist of Neue Sachlichkeit, the New Objectivity, par excellence. Painting in a very realistic, almost photographic style, he chose as subjects the poverty, violence, death, and war that he experienced as a soldier in World War I. After this terrible experience, he painted the famous triptych "The War". Dix staged the world as a play, a grotesque farce. But the form he chose to do so was based on the classical canon of beauty. Dix lived his life and served art, for he adhered to the age-old rule that the American painter Ad Reinhardt put in a nutshell: "Life is life, and art is art."
- ISBN10 3836524856
- ISBN13 9783836524858
- Publish Date 19 October 2010 (first published September 1994)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 28 January 2021
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Taschen GmbH
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English