Plate 12 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. The view through an open doorway reveals warlike nations in prayer, yet in fact enemies. Various costumes represent the different countries present. Above the bowed, kneeling figures is a bank of clouds upon which…

Original Title Der Krieg Year of Production 1924 Artist Otto Dix, printed by Karl Nierendorf. Medium Book Materials Paper, ink Dimensions height: 26.2 cm; width: 18.2 cm; depth 0.7cm Credit Line Gift of Michael Brooks Copyright © DACS…

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Dix had returned from the war for less than 2 years when he made this etching entitled 'Match Seller' which is discussed here, one of a series called 5 Radierungen (5 Etchings), which show groups of disabled ex-soldiers, often with devastating…

War is depicted as a massive giant poised above a mountain of skeletons, ending life with a sledgehammer blow. Barlach’s title looks back to the medieval theme ‘A Dance of Death’ in which living and dead both join a procession or dance, portraying…

Title page from Der Bildermann 1, No. 18 (1916), verso Weihnacht by August Gaul. Give us Peace, (Dona Nobis Pacem), from the Agnus Dei in the Latin mass.  Printed in the Christmas issue, a sorrowing Madonna ‘clothed with the sun’ floats high above…

In this haunting image Felixmuller shows a young soldier, driven to insanity through unending nightmares of conflict, his face a twisted mask of pain.  Many young men returned from war with mental as well as physical scars, alienated from friends…

Kubin produced this work possibly in response to the horrors of the First World War and its devastating consequences for thousands of young men. A struggling man is restrained by others whilst an excited barking dog looks on. A distant figure…

The taut, attenuated forms of this self-portrait and the pulsating lines coming from the sky reflect the oppressiveness and strain of the war years. The composition has been compared to Munch’s lithograph of The Scream of 1895 where the…

Slevogt was commissioned as a war artist, but, instead of producing a folio of morale raising propaganda, he produced a universal condemnation of war after returning from the front, which was condemned and censored by the authorities. He produced a…