My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the … - Otto Dix

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My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!

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Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and print-maker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. He is widely considered as one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.

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Alternative Names: o. dix • Dix • Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix

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Nobody wants to look at it. What is it all supposed to mean.. ..the old whores and the old, worn out women, and of life is cares?. .It doesn't make anybody happy. No gallery wants to exhibit it.[ his work]. Why do you even bother to paint it.

War too, must be seen as a natural occurrence.

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