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World War One was a very tragic moment for the world and the german people, who at the end of the war lost control of land, got into huge amounts of debts and was forced to sign the Treaty of Versalliances, making german essentially responsible for the war. ruining people’s pride and its economics. Life for the everyday german man wasn't so great neither , because on top of his situation, in 1922, the United States faced a Great Depression, which further affected the people, having their entire life savings virtually thrown away due to hyperinflation, and starvation to name a few1.. Otto Dix displayed this sentiment throughout his art collections utilizing the elements of colors, shapes and spacing to display the sad emotions due this time period. The Businessman Max Roesberg, Dresden, and The Portrait of Heinrich Stadelmann are two of many that will be discussed.
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix or most commonly referred to as Otto Dix was a German painter born on December 2, 1891 in Untermanhamus, German Empire modern-day Gera, Germany displayed the sad reality of the german people after world war one through the use of many paints and utilizing several artist techniques. In 1910 he attended the school of arts and crafts in dresden where he received his diploma of arts and following this he volunteered in the German Army to fight for his country, gaining experience for his future works of art.2. By the end of World War I he returned to his hometown but later moved to Dreden where he studied art and began to 1.UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007429 (accessed May 10, 2014).
.make expressionist paintings, evoking mood and the idea of feelings into his artworks3..During the Nazi...

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One thirty five , a radom time, showing that this an event that occurs routinely and below the is a calandar with the date of twenty four and diectly above the number there is a factory icon suggesting his place of work . Looking back again one fins a right triganle in the composition, with the clock being the vertex and the right egde making a right angle with the wooden table displaying a non naturalistic setting.
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