About this artwork
This image is one of the most frequently reproduced works from the series War. Otto Dix once again showed his sophisticated use of surface and etching effects. But this work also highlights the unrelenting focus on death and decay that punctuates the folio of prints. In the trench, whether one was alive or dead seems to have made little difference, and the repetition of the grotesque nature of war emphasizes the massive scale of the slaughter as well as the clear antiwar message of War as a whole.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Otto Dix
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Title
- Wounded Soldier (Autumn 1916, Bapaume), from War
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1924
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Medium
- Etching and aquatint, with open bite, on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- Plate: 19.7 × 29 cm (7 13/16 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 47.5 × 35.3 cm (18 3/4 × 13 15/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Margaret Fisher Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1999.356.6
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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