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Self portrait as mars (1915) by Otto Dix

This painting is about the second year of war, Dix depicts hiself as the God of War.  In this painting, death is abundant. Horses rear and flee. The cities are crumble. But yet, Dix remains alive. When the First World War erupted, Dix volunteered for the German Army. He was assigned to a field artillery regiment in Dresden.In the autumn of 1915 he was assigned as a non-commissioned officer of a machine-gun unit on the Western front and took part in the Battle of the Somme.   

After 1918 Dix was profoundly affected by the sights of the war, and later described a recurring nightmare in which he crawled through destroyed houses. He represented his traumatic experiences in many subsequent works,

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