larvalhex: Otto Dix, ‘A Wounded Soldier (Autumn 1916, Bapaume)’ Dix was a machine gunner during the
larvalhex: Otto Dix, ‘A Wounded Soldier (Autumn 1916, Bapaume)’ Dix was a machine gunner during the battle of the Somme, an experience that left him with obsessive memories of death. Here he depicts unblinkingly the agony of a comrade wounded in the abdomen, expressed in his bulging eyes, clenched right hand and twisted left arm. This image is an unmitigated symbol of human suffering. -- source link