The art of Otto Dix closely resembles what can be seen in the well known
film "All Quiet on the Western Front", 1928, by Erich Maria Remarque.
However, a better title might have been "All Quiet on the Western Front,
but NOT on the Eastern Front"
The times immediately at the end of WWI were during the "Rhineland Republic".
As a few years passed, we enter upon the time of "der Führer": Adolf Hitler.
Soldiers that fought in World War I and were disabled: missing arms, hands, feet,
legs, arms and legs, defacing wounds, blind, mentally ill, etc. begged in the
streets filled with criminals, prostitutes, etc. Jews were being targeted as the
next victims, along with Poles, Gypsies, Slaves, etc.
Is this art? Most people have not caught up with Thomas Eakins: Indeed, it is art,
but Hitler thinks reality in art is "degenerate" if he doesn't like the reality.
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