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Otto Dix, artist
German, 1891 - 1969
Scherzo, 1920
Woodcut
23.4 x 16.8 cm (image); 42 x 30 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.616

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Artist Biography: Painter, printmaker, etcher. Son of iron worker. After serving in World War I, studied at academies of Dresden and D¸sseldorf. In the 1920s was a prominent member of the "Neue Sachlichkeit." Social realist. Depicted depravities of decadent society and the horrific nature of war with penetrating psychological truth.~~Reference: Karsch, Florian, ed. Otto Dix, das graphische Werk. (Hannover: Fackeltr‰ger-Verlag Schmidt-K¸ster GmbH, 1970~

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