Otto Dix fought in the First World War for the better part of four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era.
Marked by the experience, he made monumental, difficult and powerful works about it.
Whereas Dix has often been presented as a lone voice of reason and opposition in Germany between the wars, this book locates his work squarely in the mainstream of Weimar society.
Informed by recent studies of collective remembrance, of camaraderie, and of th.