ICON: Otto Dix - "Machine Gun Platoon Advances (Somme, November 1916)"

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11 November 1918 is the day when the guns finally fell silent in Europe after four years of bloody slaughter - armistice. The soldiers who survived the war were severely scarred, both physically and emotionally. Otto Dix was one of them. Even during the war, he produced numerous works that dealt with the events of the war. In them he shows, often very unsparingly and directly, the immediate consequences of the war for the soldiers.
Dix was one of the few German artists to experience the First World War almost without interruption on the front line. It became increasingly clear to him how much this war destroyed people and society and dragged them into the abyss, a view that also found very clear expression in his work after the end of the war.
@netflix has remade Erich Maria Remarque's "Nothing New in the West", using modern means to give us an impression of the slaughter and death in the steel storm of the bone mill of Verdun, Ypres and so many other places of the First World War.
But nothing prepares us for the immediate ruthlessness and immediacy of Otto Dix's etchings.
The full series of all 50 etchings from the 1924 portfolio "The War" can be seen here, for example:
Museum of Modern Art, New York: www.moma.org/collection/works...
Socks Studio, Paris: socks-studio.com/2012/08/04/o...
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@Xarthis 3 ай бұрын

Diese Radierung war Thema meiner mündlichen Abi-prüfung in Kunst, und habe sie auch mal im Orginal im August Macke Haus gesehen. Sehr Beindruckend. Ich wünsche mir, dass alle die in Krieg und Gewalt etwas ehrenhaftes oder heroisches sehen, ein mal Otto Dix' "Der Krieg".

@ZeigMal 3 ай бұрын

Da bin ich ganz bei Ihnen!

@NotOneToFly 3 ай бұрын

"the steel thunderstorms of the artillery, the bone mill of the battlefields" This is poetry, even in translation. Thank you for this.

@ZeigMal 3 ай бұрын

Thank YOU for the appreciative comment - I am honoured and happy you found your way to this video.

@ratsgymnasiumrotenburg2193 11 ай бұрын

Bewegend. Dix ist ein wahrer Künstler gegen den Krieg.

@ZeigMal 11 ай бұрын

Das stimmt. Die Serie "Der Krieg" ist dabei zugleich erschreckend und fasziniert. Dix fängt in den Radierungen den Schrecken des Krieges sehr eindrucksvoll ein.

@ratsgymnasiumrotenburg2193 10 ай бұрын

@@ZeigMal Spannend auch, wie die in den Radierungen festgehaltenen Szenen eine Synthese im überdimensionalen Triptychon "Der Krieg" von 1929-32 finden. Wenn man dazu auch noch die Vorarbeiten dazu im Magazin der Hamburger Kunsthalle sieht, dann erahnt man, wie tief getroffen Dix war.

@ZeigMal 10 ай бұрын

@@ratsgymnasiumrotenburg2193 Ja, die habe ich auch mal gesehen - beeindruckend, gerade, weil sie so roh sind.