DETAILS
- Artist
- Otto Dix
- Date
- 1912
- Location
- Detroit Institute of Arts
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THE ARTIST
Otto Dix
Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, known for his unsparingly realistic depictions of Weimar Republic society and the brutal aftermath of World War I.
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