War (triptych)

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War (triptych) is a harrowing three-panel painting by German artist Otto Dix that depicts the brutal realities and psychological devastation of World War I.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
triptych
artHistoricalSignificance major anti-war statement in 20th-century art
artStyleCharacteristic distorted figures
harsh realism
symbolic imagery
collection Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
completionDate 1932
countryOfOrigin Germany
creator Otto Dix
depicts World War I
battlefield devastation
civilian suffering
corpses
destruction of cities
fog and smoke
no man’s land
psychological trauma of war
ruined landscape
self-portrait of Otto Dix as a soldier
skeletal remains
soldiers
trench warfare
wounded soldiers
genre war art
hasArtisticForm altarpiece-like composition
hasColorPalette muted colors
reds and browns
hasPart War (triptych) self-linksurface differs
surface form: War (triptych) central panel

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surface form: War (triptych) left panel

War (triptych) predella
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surface form: War (triptych) right panel
inception 1929
inspiredBy Otto Dix’s experience as a soldier in World War I
languageOfTitle German
location Galerie Neue Meister
mainSubject Western Front
surface form: World War I Western Front

horrors of war
materialUsed oil paint
tempera
wood panel
movement Expressionism
New Objectivity
theme anti-war
death
memory of war
trauma
titleInOriginalLanguage Der Krieg

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Otto Dix notableWork War (triptych)
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto notableWork War (triptych)
subject surface form: Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix
this entity surface form: Triptychon Der Krieg
War (triptych) hasPart War (triptych) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: War (triptych) left panel
War (triptych) hasPart War (triptych) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: War (triptych) central panel
War (triptych) hasPart War (triptych) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: War (triptych) right panel