Otto Dix - Catalog Prints


	Title: 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. Publisher: From Der Krieg; #40 National Gallery of Austrailia Canberra link:



	Title: Machine-gun Squad Advances (Somme, November 1916) [Maschinengewehrzug geht vor (Somme, November 1916)] Year: 1924 Description: In November 1916, the Britsh continued their assault against entrenched machine guns. Here the German counter offensive is slowed as the gunners trudged through the field they had sown. Publisher: From Der Krieg; #41 Museum of Modern Art New York, NY link:


	Title: Dead Man (St. Clément) [Toter (St. Clément)] Year: 1924 Description: At first glance, he could be sleeping. His head lies comfortably on a mound which resembles a pillow. Then you notice a hole in his cheek. And brains ooze from his skull... Publisher: From Der Krieg; #42 Museum of Modern Art New York, NY link:


	Title: Ration Carrying near Pilkem (Essenholer bei Pilkem) Year: 1924 Description: The men crawl through trench system with daily rations in a sachel. Hands and feet are both needed to remain low and move forward.. Thus they tote ration bags in their teeth ... like horses with a feed bag. Publisher: From Der Krieg; #43 Museum of Modern Art New York, NY link:


	Title: Stealthpatrol attack [Uberfall einer Schleichpatrouille] Year: 1924 Description: Trench raids generally had little strategic impact other than to lower the enemy's morale. Publisher: From Der Krieg; #44 National Gallery of Austrailia Canberra link:


	Title: Unterstand [Dugout] Year: 1924 Description: Two exhausted soldiers soundly sleep. Another pair gamble money that has no value on the line. And a fifth man goes crazy as shells drop overhead. Publisher: From Der Krieg; #45 Museum of Modern Art New York, NY link:


	Title: The Sleepers of Fort Vaux (Gas Victims) [Die Schlafenden von Fort Vaux (Gas-Tote)] Year: 1924 Description: Death by poisen gas was a terrible ordeal. It burned the lungs but left body unscathed. Publisher: From Der Krieg; #46 Museum of Modern Art New York, NY link:


	Title: Transporting the Wounded in Houthulst Forest (Verwundetentransport im Houthulster Wald) Year: 1924 Description: In the First World War, the automobile was put to work as an ambulance. Trains and steam ships carried wounded to home-front hospitals. Despite such advances, a wounded man often relied on comrades to get him off the field. Publisher: From Der Krieg; #47 Museum of Modern Art New York, NY link:


	Title: The Outposts in the Trenches Must Maintain the Bombardment at Night (Die Sappenposten haben nachts das Feuer zu unterhalten) Year: 1924 Description: Description Publisher: From Der Krieg; #48 Museum of Modern Art New York, NY link:


	Title: Roll Call of Returning Troops (Appell der Zurückgekehrten) from The War (Der Krieg) Year: 1924 Description: The war took a great toll on all its participants. Here the living are barely distinguishable from the dead. The report to a well-fed administrative officer in a clean pressed uniform. Publisher: From Der Krieg; #49 Museum of Modern Art New York, NY link:

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