Otto Dix Accomplishments

During the time of war, men were called away to fight and women were told to step up into their places. In the post war world, men were told to go back to their normal lives. The simple order for men to return to their jobs was easier said than done. There was no consideration of the effect of war on the men returning. Men were in constant fear of being bombed and attacked by a force that no longer existed. Some were so physically and mentally injured that recovery was slow or unattainable. Otto Dix was veteran himself and knew first hand the effect of war on people, like when men didn’t come home or were so physically and mentally injured that their day-to-day life was changed for the rest of their lifetime. Dix’s work symbolises the themes

It was a time of complete control with little given to individuality. As a artist of expressionism Dix was a large target to the Nazi’s. His artwork became a death trap for himself. In order to survive, Dix changed his style to suit what was classed as acceptable by the Nazi’s. Dix’s artwork became stories of landscape and scenery, fine detailed captured the beauty of mountain ranges, meadows and plains. His artwork became politically quiet, and ignored any emotion towards the Nazism regime. Bernina Landscapes (1938) incorporates the contrasting warm and cool colours of blue and brown to embellish the countryside, the colours balance each other as there is more brown then blue, but the darkness of the blue prevents the brightness of the orange from being to over powering. It was painted in a time of repression and stood above other artworks with the lack of political connection and offered an escape from the oppressed society. The orange tones radiate a calm sense and work with the endless light blue and white to create a depth in the art work suggesting that the landscape is endless and has bounds of freedom, contrasting with the reality people lived