War: The prints of Otto Dix.
Title
War: The prints of Otto Dix.
Collective title
A National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition
Venues
National Gallery Of Australia (2007 – 2007)
Art Gallery Of South Australia. (30 November 2007 – 28 January 2008)
National Gallery Of Victoria: International. (12 April 2008 – 10 August 2008)
Date
(2007 – 2008)
Summary
Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia. Prints.
Curator
Henshaw, Mark.
Documentation
catalogue
Country of context
Australia
Abstract
I did not paint war pictures in order to prevent war. I would never have been so arrogant. I painted them to exorcise the experience of war. All art is about exorcism.’
The 'War' series is consciously modelled on Francisco Goya’s 'The disasters of war' (c.1810–20), which depicts the brutality of the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, and Dix’s images of 20th century trench warfare are equally uncompromising. Like Goya, Dix used a variety of etching techniques with astonishing facility. The 'War' series remains one of the most potent indictments of war ever conceived, and is regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century.
[National Gallery of Australia media, 2008].
Last Updated
05 Aug 2024