Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas is one of the most famous anti-war paintings created by German-born Otto Dix. Dix served in the German army during WWI, fighting on first the Western front then later the Eastern front until the end of the war. He was wounded several times, and the trauma of war stayed with him long after he left the armed services. In a 1963 interview he is quoted as saying:"As a young man you don’t notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through… "
These horrors of war are depicted in this painting in which German soldiers, wearing gas masks and weilding grenades, are advancing toward the enemy. The dark dark hues and faceless figures create a dark, almost cartoonishly nightmarish, atmosphere that is the reality of war.
These horrors of war are depicted in this painting in which German soldiers, wearing gas masks and weilding grenades, are advancing toward the enemy. The dark dark hues and faceless figures create a dark, almost cartoonishly nightmarish, atmosphere that is the reality of war.
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