If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous. - Otto Dix

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If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.

Otto Dix

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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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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!

RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' [now lost] created such a sensation in Dresden

I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.

If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous. - Otto Dix

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