The Online Otto Dix Project

A German Artist and Print Maker
 

Skull
Schädel

Year: 1924

Description:

For all its waste, the war provided a windfall for scavengers. The First World War produced generations of happy worms and maggots. Trench rats roamed as big as beavers. Gas was sometimes a welcome respite as it decimated these pests.

Provenance: Der Krieg; #31
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY



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  • Sabrina Sohn

    I was wondering if the subject matter himself commissioned the artist to draw the doctor or not? thanks