Otto Dix: The War (Der Krieg) 50 etchings, Berlin 1924 (with captions) [HD]

The War (German: Der Krieg) is a series of 50 drypoint and aquatint etchings by German artist Otto Dix. The prints were published in Berlin in 1924 by Karl Nierendorf. The series is often compared to Francisco Goya’s series of 82 engravings The Disasters of War. Dix was born in 1891, and studied art in Dresden before the First World War. He was conscripted in 1915, and served in the Imperial German Army as a machine gunner on both the Eastern Front and the Western Front. After the war, he returned to study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, and then in Italy. He was a founder of the short-lived avante-garde Dresdner Sezession art group, and then supported the post-expressionist New Objectivity movement. His horrific experiences in the trenches inspired the anti-war art he created after 1920. Dix came to public attention when featured by Theodor Däubler in Das Kunstblatt in 1920. In 1921, Otto Dix met Karl Nierendorf, an art dealer in Berlin, who became his agent and publisher. Dix