About this artwork
It is worth emphasizing that Otto Dix served for three years as a soldier in the trenches. By the end of the war, he was a sergeant in a machine-gun unit. The soldier highlighted through the contrast of light and dark in the middle of this print resembles Dix’s self-portrait as a soldier, which he completed as a presentation drawing for the folio that he gave to his dealer Karl Nierendorf. He depicted himself as a distinct part of the group of ragtag soldiers marching on in spite of everything.
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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
- Battle-weary Troops Retreat (Battle of the Somme), from War
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1924
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Medium
- Etching on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- Plate: 19.6 × 28.8 cm (7 3/4 × 11 3/8 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
- 1999.358.1
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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