Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936

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Ann Murray

Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936

Ann Murray

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
23 October 2025

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts

The harsh realities of wartime and Weimar-era Germany called for a new kind of art. Dada, followed by Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), confronted social and political issues in new and bold ways. This book highlights how Otto Dix (1891–1969) – one of the leading artists connected to these artistic movements – employed these new approaches to reveal the injustices of wartime and post-World War I Germany. Having spent 38 months on the frontline, his pictures revealed the brutalities of the conflict and helped establish him as one of Europe’s leading modernists.

Offering substantial new research and presenting numerous primary sources to an English readership for the first time, the book examines Dix’s war pictures within the broader visual culture of war in order to assess how they functioned alternatively as cutting-edge modernist art and transgressive war commemoration.

Each chapter provides a case study of the first public display of one or more of Dix’s war pictures at key exhibitions and explores how their reception was subjected to changing socio-political and cultural conditions as well as divergent attitudes to the lost war. It pulls together a number of key approaches and texts: contemporary reviews, contemporary cultural productions (such as novels and cartoons), and theoretical and historical approaches from history, memory studies and art history.

Bringing a unique perspective and original scholarship to Dix’s war works, this book is essential reading for art historians of World War I and the visual culture of Weimar Germany.

By: Ann Murray
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781350354661
ISBN 10: 135035466X
Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 23 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Note on Translations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 1914-1918 2. The War Amputee as Anti-Icon 3. Disenchanting Mars: The Trench and The War 4. Metropolis as War Memorialisation 5. War at the Prussian Academy of Arts 6. The Fate of the War Pictures in the Early Years of the Third Reich Conclusion Sources and Bibliography Index

Ann Murray is an independent scholar from Ireland. She is the editor of Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914: The Eye on War (2018).

Reviews for Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936

"""Based on an impressive collection of archival material, this study explores critical responses to Dix's work, including National Socialist views and post-war memorialisation."" --Nina L�bbren, Associate Professor in Art History and Film, Anglia Ruskin University, UK ""Murray's deeply researched analysis reveals Dix as a trenchant critic of Weimar-era and wartime Germany. Paying close attention to the artist's critical reception, Murray demonstrates Dix's profound engagement with the politics of war commemoration and the memory of trauma."" --Matthew Biro, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Michigan, USA"