About this artwork
Otto Dix, like Max Beckmann, had a strong interest in prominent print artists of the past, including Francisco de Goya. The strong contrast of light and dark in this print, as well as the tortured bodies splayed on the crosses of the barbed-wire frames, indicates his appreciation of the style and concept of Goya’s series The Disasters of War. Such images formed a devastating critique of the atrocities of war as experienced in World War I.
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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
- Wire Entanglement in Front of a Trench, from War
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Origin
- Germany
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Date
- 1924
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Medium
- Etching on cream wove paper
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Dimensions
- 260 × 195 mm (plate); 475 × 353 mm (sheet)
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Credit Line
- Margaret Fisher Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1999.358.10
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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