The Online Otto Dix Project

A German Artist and Print Maker
 

Skin Graft
Transplantation

Year: 1924

Description:

Many soldiers returned home horribly disfigured by the war. Efforts were made to improve their looks but methods were primitive and wounds grotesque. Some simply opted for masks. Others couldn't bear such an existence.

Provenance: Der Krieg; #40
National Gallery of Austrailia
Canberra



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  • Sabrina Sohn

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