Tableau metropolis d otto dix biography

From 1925,Metropolis‘ painter Otto Dix became an essential exponent of the New Objectivity. This artistic movement played a social criticism role in Germany by looking at everyday life with a cynical, outspoken, and cruel eye.

Such as George Grosz, John Heartfield,and Otto Dix himself, many artists who witnessed and survived the WWI horrors recorded through their works how Germany was paying severe post-war consequences.

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For this reason, war-wounded people and rejected by society are recurring figures in Otto Dix’s oeuvres.

They are also present in Otto Dix’s Metropolis triptych, at the edge of the frame, with their green military uniform. The three ex-soldiers, two of whom are without legs, appear distressed and beg for attention in vain.

Indeed, some passing people, proudly flaunting naked legs, are pushing them more and more at the corners, in the dark. The opulent passers-by parade in Metropolis (Dix) - Wikipedia WESAF