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Otto Dix 1891-1969, German painter and draftsman. Dix fought in World War I and returned to Düsseldorf haunted by the horrors he had witnessed. Associated with the new objectivity movement in German expressionism , he depicted the sordid world of prostitutes and swindlers with a painful precision and intensity. In 1924 he published War, a series of 50 etchings, fantastic visions executed with great clarity. Accused of an attempt on Hitler's life in 1939, he was imprisoned in Dresden and later made prisoner of war by the French. After the war he worked in West Germany.

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Dix, Otto (1891–1969) German painter and engraver. He was a pitiless satirist of inhumanity, notably in a series of 50 etchings called The War (1924) and his portrayal of prostitutes. He attacked the corruption in Weimar Germany. The Nazis banned him from teaching (1933), and he was jailed for an alleged plot to kill Hitler (1939). After World War II, he concentrated on religious themes.

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	"How can I hurt you?" The author revisits two irreverent portraits of physicians by the German Expressionist Otto Dix in order to learn more about the sitters who submitted to the painter's fiercely satirical vision.(Critical Essay)(Biography) Magazine article from: Art in America; 4/1/2004
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