I think one important detail in the last panel is that the man Dix is carrying has a bandage wrapped around his entire head. To me it seems like Dix is implying he doesn't even know if he is saving a friend or a foe. The lack of colour in Dix and the man may also suggest a lack of blood or humanity which could be lost as a result of the war, both literally (blood) and figuratively (humanity). These are superficial observations, (could be reaching) but just some things I noticed.
Since the Hague convention, it doesn't matter if one is a friend or foe once they aren't a active combattant anymore. You help everyone in the amount you are possible to spend. (For sure, you help your fellows first, but if there is only a wounded ex enemy, you help him.
It's also crazy to consider that two artists participated in the Battle of Somme in 1916, for one who displayed the casualties of war in bold depictions of viscera and pronounced psychological trauma, and the other who so was deep into the fight he begged to not be removed from it. That same soldier-artist would display the former's artworks as "Degenerate Art" years later, in an environment he facilitated and repeated the same violence unto the world as the two had seen before.
I saw this comment from a album called "Everywhere at the end of time" and it states "The best depiction of art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable" and seeing how people painted their experiences and traumatic events from war and it shows what they felt and did, it's heartbreaking
I had the chance to see Der Krieg at my local museum in 2019, and I guarantee that those 50 artworks were quite difficult to watch, but it was great nonetheless.
I also saw his works in a museum in Germany. There were the most striking to me amongst all of the exibeted artwork. I went there with my class at this time, but they were uninterested of it seemed, or in art in gereneral. When I see his paintings I always hear a pice of music in my head. It is "hell" from worms armageddon. I am blessed and also cursed by a wild and deep imagination which make these scenes feel realy real to me, hence the impact it had on me. Thouse paintings carry a lot of emotinons and tragedy with them and I can deeply feel that.
Man that would have been quite the experience. I bet it was similar to visiting the atomic bomb museum in Hiroshima, which is something I had the opportunity to do. As an American, seeing that stuff was really had.
Another excellent WWI artist is someone name Paul Nash. I watched a 26 episode 1964 documentary series about WWI and discovered him by accident. Both his works and the quote that made me interested in him was, "Nash didn't simply see an explosion, the explosion took place, inside Nash."
I remember my first time seeing Goya's war prints. I'd never had more than a passing interest in art. I thought of it as a talent that others simply had and could profit off of. Seeing Goya's works, I couldn't help but feel him saying "Look! Look, you idiots! This is what war is and does!" While being overwhelmingly frustrated at his inability to do anything to stop it but highlight it.
It is not a coincidence his artwork is often used as cover art for "All Quiet on the Western Front". Similarly to his art, that book tells a story of soldiers going off into the unknown only to be met with the horrific brutality of war in the trenches.
Dix. My favourite artist. He hid from nothing. The tryptych is just incredible. Not many can do this with mere paint and canvas. His work chills your bones. Thankyou. I would have liked to see some of his later work too.
"The Outpost In The Trenches Must Maintain The Bombardment at night" caught my eye immidiatly. We are in a trench, suraounded by seemingly nothing but death, destruction and chaos. From the viewers perspective it almost looks like we are observing the two only soldiers still alive, guarding what is the reminders of a trench, looking out for enemies, yet dispite all the distruction around them, we can't find out where it even came from. We can't see who the two men are fighting. You could interpret that 1. The two men are fighting a hopeless fight to win as it seems like the two are heavily outnumbered indicated by the damage done by the enemy or 2. that both are fighting a senseless war, as they are seemingly fighting over nothing, against only the night, with the moon being the only thing we can make out in the direction they point their rifles in.
Dix sketched a self-portrait in ink on a brown paper bag called 'Me as a Soldier' as a gift for the owner of his gallery. He portrayed his face as 3 lines - 2 eyes and a mouth - between his helmet and the collar of his tunic, the arms of which cradle a machine gun like a baby. It is a picture of a monster.
i had a pretty volatile early childhood, i was severely behind in development so when the state mandated i go to therapy the only way i could express myself was through “art”, that looked much like this. when i look at otto’s work i feel myself shrink back to that primordial state, dashing black crayon everywhere so hard i eventually snap it cleanly in two. this is a horror, or a disturbance i have not felt before
Wow, not even a year after your video, we are witnessing those horror once again. You almost quote almost word for word a friend of in the military : "La guerre se n'est pas joli"
To be honest, if the paintings creep us out… imagine what Dix saw during the Battle of the Somme or the Kasierschlatt in person… which were some of the bloodiest battles of World War One. You can really tell that what he saw was pretty much hell.
The paintings are so varied, "Wounded Man" looks almost as if it was taken from Akira (the japanese film). It's all very hard to look at. Brings back memories of reading "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Remarque. 5:18 that's an interesting observation, it shows a great deal of empathy. The way you tie it togather with Goya is also very interesting. Whenever I see those Goya eyes, I feel like I'm gonna lose my mind. Scary stuff. PS: this is what I mean with the comparison to Akira, it's remarkable: th-cam.com/video/vo2X-SkAJMU/w-d-xo.html (10:54 in your video)
Hard to look at indeed. Otto Dix also made a series of portraits that are a study of veterans with damaged faces. Those portraits feel like cold needles to your spine. Still, they are immensely human, respectful and tender in a very strange way. Dix really took his time and watched these men with all their gruesome wounds. You can see it in their eyes that these men are grateful that someone would actually dare to look at them, when most couldn't stomach it.
Just saw Der Krieg in Dresden last week. Absolutely harrowing… the scale of the painting really makes it so much more impactful. I recommend everyone to see it in real life, it’s incredible.
I think this video is very well done describing and showing how Dix was able to paint and convey the horrors of World War I and what he saw there. That being said, I’m a little surprised the video didn’t mention or show his post war paintings. In some ways they’re even more devastating considering their portrayal of veterans who are often physically and mentally scarred trying to reenter a society that either doesn’t know about or care about the horrors they saw and went through; as well as allusions to some folks who profited from the war while the soldiers were just used and spit out. Some really amazing antiwar social commentary from a time period (1920’s) when that was hardly commonplace.
The Der Krieg prints remind me of this anti war book my grandfather owned. It was published in the 30s and it contained hundreds of gruesome photographs showing the horrors of WWI.
Thank you for this video. These engravings were new to me. They remind me of those of Goya from the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, which I saw in Zaragoza where they made a huge impression. The grotesque inhumanity was the same - a hundred years previous to WW1, and a hundred years past that, it's still the same. The cruelty humans inflict on other humans is unfathomable - and apparently nothing changes there.
This is the most excellent in depth consideration of how personal participation or observation of the brutality of war becomes the inspiration for skilled complex narratives in art. I have an understanding of the phase "the fog of war" as I functioned as a LRRP, 82nd Airborne Division of the Army, 1965-70: After each operation there is a "debriefing" and it was almost always "What you saw, didn't happen". The chaotic mix of "didn't happen" events arises after the events when one is supposed to be a well functioning member of society. I remember the phase "For V-Vet Andy and His Heart Attacks Because He Couldn't Speak and Nobody Would Listen Anyway" that is the title of an art work by the Native American Artist Rick Bartow (presently deceased). About 30 years after the experiences that chaotic mix expressed itself in my hand drawn animation (FIELD OF GREEN: A SOLDIERS ANIMATED SKETCHBOOK) and many drawings that attempt to recreate a sketchbook diary from the late 1960's. Thanks for the depth and sensitivity of this consideration.
The gasmask soldier amongst the dead bodies didn't wander into the scene, he lives in it, he's just sitting there, because soldiers lived amongst the dead in the trenches
Otto Dix had a way of making the vision of war's horror as equally brutal if not more so than the ability of men like Wilfred Owen and Seigfried Sassoon to put same into words and poems. Some of the best poetry and writings came from survivors of the great war. And so many more perished that we may never know their greatness.
We talked about his paintings In our History advanced class when we were also showed video captures of shellshocked veterans. It was hard to watch but it made talking about the first world war more personal and 'real' if you know what i mean. Art is a great way to really show what is going on in people's lives even if they're long gone
8:29 As a child I was the one who took care of the dead cows because my Dad couldn't stand the smell but it didn't bother me. I remember going down into the area where I kept them. It was this hole in the ground probably 200 feet across. Had a creek going through it and was mostly scrub brush. Hot and humid, bugs buzzed around everywhere. No real shade. Except this one old tree where the previous farm had put their dead. I dug down a couple feet and still hit bones. But to stand there surrounded by my corpses with their various stages of decay and flies buzzing wasn't the most pleasant in the heat. I remember standing down there wishing for a breeze because the air was hanging stagnant, the sickly sweet smell was almost overwhelming. Checking my corpses was always fun, see how decayed they were. I would put the skulls in the creek, the old skulls that had rotted enough. Usually bugs crawled out, one time I picked up a skull by the eye socket and a yellowjacket crawled out and stung me :( Sometimes when I took the bodies back I would put them in trees or on abandoned stuff. It was neat to watch them fall apart and left kind of ruins I guess. My favorite was this head and spine that stayed in a tree for two years IIRC, took a lot of pictures of that one. But anyway, this picture reminds me of my corpse pit. I can't imagine how horrible it would be if it were people though.
7:35 the hunches over body also has a wreath of barbed wire around his head, reminiscent of Christ’s crown of thorns, possibly symbolising how in war, even God seems to be dead
4:24 is such a interesting painting because usually it was about the area or what horrible things he saw. However, what is the lunatic and why is he so terrifying?
I just took the title literally - it could be a civilian or even a soldier who's just completely lost it, possibly malnourished and disfigured by the looks of it. You could imagine a lot of people in such a situation losing their grip on reality.
The lunatic depicts a trooper who‘s gone insane from the scenery of war and roams the trenches at night in psychosis and paranoia “Lunatic” is a commonly used word in old language for the insane/mentally disturbed. The title Encounter with “a” Lunatic tells that he is not the only one who become like this. It was probably a frequent Encounter.
Brilliant as always! As Ukrainian I've witnessed a strange phenomenon: as well as many of my fellows, I've completely lost any kind of compassion or empathy towards dead, disfigured and gored or dying/mortally wounded Russian soldiers. I feel that this is wrong: as a human I should treat other humans equally in terms of life and death. But.. after those atrocities Russian army have committed, I feel no empathy toward them and I wish they will either die or will never have a possibility to fight. I don't see this Triptych disturbing or disgusting, because I've already saw these things. And I feel nothing while looking at this Triptych, absolutely nothing, except grief for witness and "sleeping" soldiers. I can only admit how realistically artist depicted the horrors of war. The battlefield is a true hellscape.
World is a mess, I've also noticed something strange, the amount of death and destruction that takes place in ukronistan is completely amazing to me, I find myself mesmerized by the intensity of violence that is being inflicted upon ukranians every day but I dont feel any kind of empathy towards any Ukrainian, whats More is that I regularly consume media depicting these atrocities With a kind of feeling of watching historical justice, I watched the euromaidan unfold and the posterior madness that ukraine inflicted upon its own Citizens such as odessa massacre, for 8 years I saw how a nation Became radicalized and dehumanized by their very own will to gain its place in western sphere, I dont feel empathy towards russian war-Machine but I still consider them humans, ukros on the other hand are ripping what they sow and I dont think there is a single one ukranian that is inoccent for what is being done to them, I know that the war will still go on maybe for several years More and o hope your national idea gets crushed to death, im from México and my own country have waged war against itself for 14 years while the World turns a blind eye to the madness that happens right Here, so I hope the World eventually also goes blind to the suffering of your people, it is what it is, there is no honor inself-inflicting wounds, maybe you are already death by the time I wrote this (hopefully) but rest asured that my own people will be Met With the same fate as yours in 2024
@@cetochtlisofunny523 My man, you've just consumed too much russian propaganda(it's especially visible by using such words as "ukronistan" or "ukros" that are used only by Russian radicals). I can feel your pain but I don't understand what ukrainians did to you?
@@cetochtlisofunny523 Also it's kinda sad that you think that we are some kind of monsters. And this Odessa massacre - did you know that Russian radicals, wearing red bands were the first who shot to death the Ukrainian ultras? Also let's don't forget that the police was bribed by Russian intelligence (so all odessa police and firefighter management that was in charge in 2014 has moved to Russia afterwards, what a coincidence!). Oh, maybe you should check a couple of videos of Russian propaganda reporters together with DNR terrorists, that inflicted fire on civilians. Read about Massive tortures in Russian jails, or how you can be arrested for fucking emoji or "like" in SM, Karl! Shit that's insane! And you really want us to go into Russian sphere? Really? We don't want to live in GUlAG, sorry mate. Oh, about Gulag, don't forget to read about Russian concentration camp "Izolatsija"(Isolation) or about horrific conditions of Russian "filtration" camps. You maybe really don't understand what's going on here. Just imagine if, for example, USA would try to annex your territories, tell you that there are no Mexicans, but wrong Americans instead. And shot your people to death. Ah, I'd like to see your reaction then. However, I don't wish you to be dead, just want to wish you a peace. Perhaps after 14 years of war you and your country deserve it(no sarcasm).
@@cetochtlisofunny523 Oh, and something about "historical" justice. Do you know that our confrontation with Russian has been going for 600 years now? And you don't even realise what atrocious things they've commited to us(and to other nations) in past and presence (and perhaps in the future) just because we wanted to be free. Our hatred towards ANY invader is fully justified(as it should be).
@@cetochtlisofunny523 The world didn't give a fuck about our eternal war for independence for 600 fucking years! And turned the blind eye to it even in 2015-2022, so your argument is not valid
I think the wanderer isn't a wanderer but just a new sentry for that part of the trench, since he has his Zeltbahn wrapped around him and is seemingly sitting. The gas mask is also probably there because of the smell.
Thanks for taking a moment to just insult and dehumanise half of human political feeling, and blame them for war as such. Really puts the cherry on top.
One of my favorite artists. His work ranges from offbeat and intriguing to visceral and disgusting, and I can’t help but be captured by the meanings and ideas presented within the skewed, twisted, scarred forms and scenes he portrayed.
8:39 omg lets goo!!! minecraft painting!!! no but seeing otto dix's sketches of war definitely reaffirms the creation of the zombie in popular culture, well the image of one for sure, its so ghastly and uncanny the human figures dismembered and almost unrecognizable, it feels familiar
It should be noted that the calls for war came from all political factions in that time, it was not exclusive to the right. Teddy Roosevelt was pretty gung ho about war, and the 'Glorious Revolution' in Russia was another incredibly destructive conflict that immediately followed the First World War.
True, but in Germany, which is the context the artist was working in, it was the far right who were using allegory to a militaristic glory age to radicalise the country. It's why the SA wore uniforms, it made them look like an army.
The lunatic depicts a trooper who‘s gone insane from the scenery of war and roams the trenches at night in psychosis and paranoia “Lunatic” is a commonly used word in old language for the insane/mentally disturbed. The title Encounter with “a” Lunatic tells that he is not the only one who become like this. It was probably a frequent Encounter.
gasmasks really gives off some sort of uncanny valley feeling, it dehumanizes soldiers into emotionless killing machines, is it the circular eye pieces? looks creepy compared to modern balaclava and ballistic eyewear
Can’t speak for death metal, but punk rock bands have used these paintings. ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B7_(%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BC)
where do you get such high definition scans of paitings? i like art but i always try to google big scans of famous paintings to apriciate the detail but i cant find them anywhere!
Tbf this painting, each of them, is a form of art and now we rarely know the importance if them since when we type some "war of xx" In google, the painting instantly show up and just represent as merely illustration
I think one important detail in the last panel is that the man Dix is carrying has a bandage wrapped around his entire head. To me it seems like Dix is implying he doesn't even know if he is saving a friend or a foe. The lack of colour in Dix and the man may also suggest a lack of blood or humanity which could be lost as a result of the war, both literally (blood) and figuratively (humanity). These are superficial observations, (could be reaching) but just some things I noticed.
this is amazing, good observation/interpretation my kind sir
It may even be a reference to Prussian blue. Yet another horrific aspect of world war 2.
Also the hanging corpse was looking at the soldier while pointing at the gory mess
Since the Hague convention, it doesn't matter if one is a friend or foe once they aren't a active combattant anymore. You help everyone in the amount you are possible to spend. (For sure, you help your fellows first, but if there is only a wounded ex enemy, you help him.
The lack of color in Dix.
Goes so hard.
It's also crazy to consider that two artists participated in the Battle of Somme in 1916, for one who displayed the casualties of war in bold depictions of viscera and pronounced psychological trauma, and the other who so was deep into the fight he begged to not be removed from it. That same soldier-artist would display the former's artworks as "Degenerate Art" years later, in an environment he facilitated and repeated the same violence unto the world as the two had seen before.
yeah corporal hitler was very weird like that
It was degenerate
And will be removed again
@@Some_random98 "Grrr... artistic expression. How dare people not be talentless hacks like me"
@@Some_random98 Right after you leave the sofa?
Ones who know nothing of the past are deaf to the future and slaves to there Shepard who leads them to slaughter
Aka the idiots who responded
I saw this comment from a album called "Everywhere at the end of time" and it states "The best depiction of art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable" and seeing how people painted their experiences and traumatic events from war and it shows what they felt and did, it's heartbreaking
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@Owen Robinson I wouldn’t say that’s the “The best” depiction of art but it is a way to depict art
That album, musically describing the gradual loss of memory from dementia, is one of the saddest and most chilling pieces of music I have ever heard.
The best depiction of art is the one that you think it is. There is no objectivity with art.
I had the chance to see Der Krieg at my local museum in 2019, and I guarantee that those 50 artworks were quite difficult to watch, but it was great nonetheless.
Lucky you! I'd love to see these 50 prints reunited in one room! Thank you for sharing :)
I also saw his works in a museum in Germany. There were the most striking to me amongst all of the exibeted artwork. I went there with my class at this time, but they were uninterested of it seemed, or in art in gereneral.
When I see his paintings I always hear a pice of music in my head. It is "hell" from worms armageddon. I am blessed and also cursed by a wild and deep imagination which make these scenes feel realy real to me, hence the impact it had on me. Thouse paintings carry a lot of emotinons and tragedy with them and I can deeply feel that.
Man that would have been quite the experience. I bet it was similar to visiting the atomic bomb museum in Hiroshima, which is something I had the opportunity to do. As an American, seeing that stuff was really had.
Another excellent WWI artist is someone name Paul Nash. I watched a 26 episode 1964 documentary series about WWI and discovered him by accident. Both his works and the quote that made me interested in him was, "Nash didn't simply see an explosion, the explosion took place, inside Nash."
what’s the documentary?
I remember my first time seeing Goya's war prints. I'd never had more than a passing interest in art. I thought of it as a talent that others simply had and could profit off of.
Seeing Goya's works, I couldn't help but feel him saying "Look! Look, you idiots! This is what war is and does!" While being overwhelmingly frustrated at his inability to do anything to stop it but highlight it.
It is not a coincidence his artwork is often used as cover art for "All Quiet on the Western Front". Similarly to his art, that book tells a story of soldiers going off into the unknown only to be met with the horrific brutality of war in the trenches.
Nocturnal Encounter With A Lunatic unnerves me, the image and title combine to evoke an almost primal fear
"soldiers aren't Heros, they are victims"
Dix. My favourite artist. He hid from nothing. The tryptych is just incredible. Not many can do this with mere paint and canvas. His work chills your bones. Thankyou. I would have liked to see some of his later work too.
"The Outpost In The Trenches Must Maintain The Bombardment at night" caught my eye immidiatly. We are in a trench, suraounded by seemingly nothing but death, destruction and chaos. From the viewers perspective it almost looks like we are observing the two only soldiers still alive, guarding what is the reminders of a trench, looking out for enemies, yet dispite all the distruction around them, we can't find out where it even came from. We can't see who the two men are fighting. You could interpret that 1. The two men are fighting a hopeless fight to win as it seems like the two are heavily outnumbered indicated by the damage done by the enemy or 2. that both are fighting a senseless war, as they are seemingly fighting over nothing, against only the night, with the moon being the only thing we can make out in the direction they point their rifles in.
Dix sketched a self-portrait in ink on a brown paper bag called 'Me as a Soldier' as a gift for the owner of his gallery. He portrayed his face as 3 lines - 2 eyes and a mouth - between his helmet and the collar of his tunic, the arms of which cradle a machine gun like a baby. It is a picture of a monster.
i had a pretty volatile early childhood, i was severely behind in development so when the state mandated i go to therapy the only way i could express myself was through “art”, that looked much like this. when i look at otto’s work i feel myself shrink back to that primordial state, dashing black crayon everywhere so hard i eventually snap it cleanly in two. this is a horror, or a disturbance i have not felt before
Wow, not even a year after your video, we are witnessing those horror once again.
You almost quote almost word for word a friend of in the military : "La guerre se n'est pas joli"
To be honest, if the paintings creep us out… imagine what Dix saw during the Battle of the Somme or the Kasierschlatt in person… which were some of the bloodiest battles of World War One. You can really tell that what he saw was pretty much hell.
The paintings are so varied, "Wounded Man" looks almost as if it was taken from Akira (the japanese film). It's all very hard to look at. Brings back memories of reading "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Remarque. 5:18 that's an interesting observation, it shows a great deal of empathy. The way you tie it togather with Goya is also very interesting. Whenever I see those Goya eyes, I feel like I'm gonna lose my mind. Scary stuff.
PS: this is what I mean with the comparison to Akira, it's remarkable: th-cam.com/video/vo2X-SkAJMU/w-d-xo.html (10:54 in your video)
Hard to look at indeed.
Otto Dix also made a series of portraits that are a study of veterans with damaged faces.
Those portraits feel like cold needles to your spine. Still, they are immensely human, respectful and tender in a very strange way.
Dix really took his time and watched these men with all their gruesome wounds. You can see it in their eyes that these men are grateful that someone would actually dare to look at them, when most couldn't stomach it.
Just saw Der Krieg in Dresden last week. Absolutely harrowing… the scale of the painting really makes it so much more impactful. I recommend everyone to see it in real life, it’s incredible.
11:12 it's terrifying that the dead look more alive than him
I think this video is very well done describing and showing how Dix was able to paint and convey the horrors of World War I and what he saw there. That being said, I’m a little surprised the video didn’t mention or show his post war paintings. In some ways they’re even more devastating considering their portrayal of veterans who are often physically and mentally scarred trying to reenter a society that either doesn’t know about or care about the horrors they saw and went through; as well as allusions to some folks who profited from the war while the soldiers were just used and spit out. Some really amazing antiwar social commentary from a time period (1920’s) when that was hardly commonplace.
The Der Krieg prints remind me of this anti war book my grandfather owned. It was published in the 30s and it contained hundreds of gruesome photographs showing the horrors of WWI.
Thank you for this video.
These engravings were new to me.
They remind me of those of Goya from the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, which I saw in Zaragoza where they made a huge impression. The grotesque inhumanity was the same - a hundred years previous to WW1, and a hundred years past that, it's still the same. The cruelty humans inflict on other humans is unfathomable - and apparently nothing changes there.
10:18 since that moment, the picture names add 60% to the level of horror
This is the most excellent in depth consideration of how personal participation or observation of the brutality of war becomes the inspiration for skilled complex narratives in art. I have an understanding of the phase "the fog of war" as I functioned as a LRRP, 82nd Airborne Division of the Army, 1965-70: After each operation there is a "debriefing" and it was almost always "What you saw, didn't happen". The chaotic mix of "didn't happen" events arises after the events when one is supposed to be a well functioning member of society. I remember the phase "For V-Vet Andy and His Heart Attacks Because He Couldn't Speak and Nobody Would Listen Anyway" that is the title of an art work by the Native American Artist Rick Bartow (presently deceased). About 30 years after the experiences that chaotic mix expressed itself in my hand drawn animation (FIELD OF GREEN: A SOLDIERS ANIMATED SKETCHBOOK) and many drawings that attempt to recreate a sketchbook diary from the late 1960's. Thanks for the depth and sensitivity of this consideration.
The gasmask soldier amongst the dead bodies didn't wander into the scene, he lives in it, he's just sitting there, because soldiers lived amongst the dead in the trenches
Otto Dix had a way of making the vision of war's horror as equally brutal if not more so than the ability of men like Wilfred Owen and Seigfried Sassoon to put same into words and poems. Some of the best poetry and writings came from survivors of the great war. And so many more perished that we may never know their greatness.
Great video. I studied WWI in college and saw many horrible pictures but these drawings were worse yet also brilliant.
We talked about his paintings In our History advanced class when we were also showed video captures of shellshocked veterans. It was hard to watch but it made talking about the first world war more personal and 'real' if you know what i mean. Art is a great way to really show what is going on in people's lives even if they're long gone
Wow I absolutely loved this! I mean, not the subject matter, but the video. Thank you! Also, great editing!
Thank you so much Sebastian!!
The tragedy of the Great War, exemplified by Dix's work, is the tragedy of our civilization self-destructing. Thank you for this brilliant video.
8:29 As a child I was the one who took care of the dead cows because my Dad couldn't stand the smell but it didn't bother me. I remember going down into the area where I kept them. It was this hole in the ground probably 200 feet across. Had a creek going through it and was mostly scrub brush. Hot and humid, bugs buzzed around everywhere. No real shade. Except this one old tree where the previous farm had put their dead. I dug down a couple feet and still hit bones. But to stand there surrounded by my corpses with their various stages of decay and flies buzzing wasn't the most pleasant in the heat. I remember standing down there wishing for a breeze because the air was hanging stagnant, the sickly sweet smell was almost overwhelming. Checking my corpses was always fun, see how decayed they were. I would put the skulls in the creek, the old skulls that had rotted enough. Usually bugs crawled out, one time I picked up a skull by the eye socket and a yellowjacket crawled out and stung me :( Sometimes when I took the bodies back I would put them in trees or on abandoned stuff. It was neat to watch them fall apart and left kind of ruins I guess. My favorite was this head and spine that stayed in a tree for two years IIRC, took a lot of pictures of that one. But anyway, this picture reminds me of my corpse pit. I can't imagine how horrible it would be if it were people though.
7:35 the hunches over body also has a wreath of barbed wire around his head, reminiscent of Christ’s crown of thorns, possibly symbolising how in war, even God seems to be dead
I'm so glad someone else caught that detail. The sudden realization in such a horrific fashion made me stop the video from being overwhelmed
I'm blown away by some of these art works!
0:07 I heard that "War" and thought "War, War never changes..."
Look what fallout has done to me
I loved the elaboration "as if death was orchestrating it"
4:24 is such a interesting painting because usually it was about the area or what horrible things he saw. However, what is the lunatic and why is he so terrifying?
I just took the title literally - it could be a civilian or even a soldier who's just completely lost it, possibly malnourished and disfigured by the looks of it. You could imagine a lot of people in such a situation losing their grip on reality.
The lunatic depicts a trooper who‘s gone insane from the scenery of war and roams the trenches at night in psychosis and paranoia
“Lunatic” is a commonly used word in old language for the insane/mentally disturbed.
The title Encounter with “a” Lunatic tells that he is not the only one who become like this. It was probably a frequent Encounter.
I wanted to hear more about lunatic in the night illustration. That one looks like it must have a harrowing story behind it.
Brilliant as always! As Ukrainian I've witnessed a strange phenomenon: as well as many of my fellows, I've completely lost any kind of compassion or empathy towards dead, disfigured and gored or dying/mortally wounded Russian soldiers. I feel that this is wrong: as a human I should treat other humans equally in terms of life and death. But.. after those atrocities Russian army have committed, I feel no empathy toward them and I wish they will either die or will never have a possibility to fight. I don't see this Triptych disturbing or disgusting, because I've already saw these things. And I feel nothing while looking at this Triptych, absolutely nothing, except grief for witness and "sleeping" soldiers. I can only admit how realistically artist depicted the horrors of war. The battlefield is a true hellscape.
World is a mess, I've also noticed something strange, the amount of death and destruction that takes place in ukronistan is completely amazing to me, I find myself mesmerized by the intensity of violence that is being inflicted upon ukranians every day but I dont feel any kind of empathy towards any Ukrainian, whats More is that I regularly consume media depicting these atrocities With a kind of feeling of watching historical justice, I watched the euromaidan unfold and the posterior madness that ukraine inflicted upon its own Citizens such as odessa massacre, for 8 years I saw how a nation Became radicalized and dehumanized by their very own will to gain its place in western sphere, I dont feel empathy towards russian war-Machine but I still consider them humans, ukros on the other hand are ripping what they sow and I dont think there is a single one ukranian that is inoccent for what is being done to them, I know that the war will still go on maybe for several years More and o hope your national idea gets crushed to death, im from México and my own country have waged war against itself for 14 years while the World turns a blind eye to the madness that happens right Here, so I hope the World eventually also goes blind to the suffering of your people, it is what it is, there is no honor inself-inflicting wounds, maybe you are already death by the time I wrote this (hopefully) but rest asured that my own people will be Met With the same fate as yours in 2024
@@cetochtlisofunny523 My man, you've just consumed too much russian propaganda(it's especially visible by using such words as "ukronistan" or "ukros" that are used only by Russian radicals). I can feel your pain but I don't understand what ukrainians did to you?
@@cetochtlisofunny523 Also it's kinda sad that you think that we are some kind of monsters. And this Odessa massacre - did you know that Russian radicals, wearing red bands were the first who shot to death the Ukrainian ultras? Also let's don't forget that the police was bribed by Russian intelligence (so all odessa police and firefighter management that was in charge in 2014 has moved to Russia afterwards, what a coincidence!). Oh, maybe you should check a couple of videos of Russian propaganda reporters together with DNR terrorists, that inflicted fire on civilians. Read about Massive tortures in Russian jails, or how you can be arrested for fucking emoji or "like" in SM, Karl! Shit that's insane! And you really want us to go into Russian sphere? Really? We don't want to live in GUlAG, sorry mate. Oh, about Gulag, don't forget to read about Russian concentration camp "Izolatsija"(Isolation) or about horrific conditions of Russian "filtration" camps.
You maybe really don't understand what's going on here. Just imagine if, for example, USA would try to annex your territories, tell you that there are no Mexicans, but wrong Americans instead. And shot your people to death. Ah, I'd like to see your reaction then. However, I don't wish you to be dead, just want to wish you a peace. Perhaps after 14 years of war you and your country deserve it(no sarcasm).
@@cetochtlisofunny523 Oh, and something about "historical" justice. Do you know that our confrontation with Russian has been going for 600 years now? And you don't even realise what atrocious things they've commited to us(and to other nations) in past and presence (and perhaps in the future) just because we wanted to be free. Our hatred towards ANY invader is fully justified(as it should be).
@@cetochtlisofunny523 The world didn't give a fuck about our eternal war for independence for 600 fucking years! And turned the blind eye to it even in 2015-2022, so your argument is not valid
What brillant art history and comparison "soldiers are victims not heroes" what truth!
One of my favorite artists getting some love
This is a seriously awesome video, thank you for this man
Horror, horror, horror............................War is shameful !
Thanks for good presentation.
Thank you for watching and commenting!! :)
8:53 it's as if the mask symbolizes that he can feel pain but can't physically show it
he's numb to it as if it already happened
I think the wanderer isn't a wanderer but just a new sentry for that part of the trench, since he has his Zeltbahn wrapped around him and is seemingly sitting. The gas mask is also probably there because of the smell.
Thanks for taking a moment to just insult and dehumanise half of human political feeling, and blame them for war as such. Really puts the cherry on top.
Ah yes, just what I need in 2022. Thanks a lot, TH-cam!
Damn, such haunting imagery.
Otto Dix fought in WWI and WWII with the Volkssturm
One of my favorite artists. His work ranges from offbeat and intriguing to visceral and disgusting, and I can’t help but be captured by the meanings and ideas presented within the skewed, twisted, scarred forms and scenes he portrayed.
I had expected some mention of The Skrat Players, but I guess that’s more about the effects of war than war itself
Great piece of art but really dark and its pretty scary attempt at war.
Dark and deep. Moving.
I brought an catalogue of the show and was terrifying to view at the time.
In a way it's a beautiful piece of art that will depict war
My favorite artist
8:39 omg lets goo!!! minecraft painting!!!
no but seeing otto dix's sketches of war definitely reaffirms the creation of the zombie in popular culture, well the image of one for sure, its so ghastly and uncanny the human figures dismembered and almost unrecognizable, it feels familiar
The moment he said "War" I expected him to continue with "War never changes"
0:07 Idk why but my brain sorta just threw itself out of a window because I thought you would start talking about how war never changes.
impactante!
Great stuff keep it up
Thank you!
Just right off the bat, I thought you were going with the good ol "war, war never changes"
It is truly horrific what people and nations do
War, war never changes
War is the necessary reclaimer of peace. We fight and die in horrific ways to offer our children peace and freedom
Bad lie
I love this piece of art he sees us as the horror we started the war the killings
It should be noted that the calls for war came from all political factions in that time, it was not exclusive to the right. Teddy Roosevelt was pretty gung ho about war, and the 'Glorious Revolution' in Russia was another incredibly destructive conflict that immediately followed the First World War.
True, but in Germany, which is the context the artist was working in, it was the far right who were using allegory to a militaristic glory age to radicalise the country. It's why the SA wore uniforms, it made them look like an army.
Yeah it's rly funny how the left is blameless even though they are the greatest murderers of human history
@@warmak4576I didn’t realize the mongol empire was left wing?
@@podomuss you want to compare the axis ,soviets and chinaman numbers with the mongols ?
Thank you.
You're welcome! Thank YOU!
The lunatic depicts a trooper who‘s gone insane from the scenery of war and roams the trenches at night in psychosis and paranoia
“Lunatic” is a commonly used word in old language for the insane/mentally disturbed.
The title Encounter with “a” Lunatic tells that he is not the only one who become like this. It was probably a frequent Encounter.
War is not about who's Right, but only about who is Left.
who will be the painter(s), who will document the war in ukraine, the war in palaestine and israel, etc in after-years?
Knocked me down the block. So now do Hulsenbeck and Beckman. When is "Babylon Berlin's" 3rd season starting?
Great presentation.
Thanks for the video
0:07 WAR, WAR NEVER CHANGES
Saw those Goya prints in the University of Texas exhibit. Horrific descriptions of what was etched into the plates.
The "Der Krieg" Painting is even in my School History textbook
Wonderful video
im not an art enthusiast but I really appreciate these paintings. I gives off a sense fear and horrible dread.
Amazing video
gasmasks really gives off some sort of uncanny valley feeling, it dehumanizes soldiers into emotionless killing machines, is it the circular eye pieces? looks creepy compared to modern balaclava and ballistic eyewear
Havent you heard? War never changes.
What's the saying?
"War...war never changes."
Wonder if some death metal band has ever used this art for an album cover. It would be perfect.
Can’t speak for death metal, but punk rock bands have used these paintings. ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B7_(%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BC)
Grünewald. His altarpiece was a huge influence on Herr Dix.
Trajedy he says…
Incredible
Saw "they shall not grow old" a few years back which is all restored footage from ww1. Dix did not exaggerate. We humans put even the devil to shame.
Never, not rarely..
War is hell.
"War, War never changes" -Some random
where do you get such high definition scans of paitings? i like art but i always try to google big scans of famous paintings to apriciate the detail but i cant find them anywhere!
I've been to New Guinea a thousand times through my Father's eyes and I've never set foot in New Guinea....
Fascinating
War never changes...
Tbf this painting, each of them, is a form of art and now we rarely know the importance if them since when we type some "war of xx" In google, the painting instantly show up and just represent as merely illustration
These made me feel extremely uncomfortable. That’s war
War. War never changes.
If I live, I will be the next Otto Dix, or Goya.
War never changes
war, war never changes.
Good stuff
Stormtroopers Advance Under a Gas Attack... i see 5 Soldiers. You don`t ?