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Biography of Otto Dix

Otto Dix was a German painter and graphic artist who was born on December 2, 1891, in Unterhaus, near the city of Gera in Saxony.

He studied painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Richard Müller. During World War I, he served as a volunteer in the active army.

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After returning from the front, he joined the Dadaists and was influenced by Georg Grosz.

In the 1920s, Dix was associated with Dadaism, Expressionism, and the "New Objectivity" movement. He paid tribute to nihilistic anarchist sentiments while creating a series of socially critical works.

The injustice of bourgeois society awakened intense feelings of anger, deep concern, and shock in Dix. In his works from the 1920s, the cruel precision of details and merciless caricature-like characteristics are combined with grotesque, terrifying fantasies and tragic distortions of form and image, ofte