Soldatentod/Soldatenlied

Details

Otto Dix (1891-1969)
Soldatentod/Soldatenlied
signed and dated 'Dix 1917' (upper left)
charcoal on buff paper
15 5/8 x 15 3/8 in. (39.7 x 39.1 cm.)
Drawn in 1917

Provenance

Private collection, Germany; sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 26 November 1976, lot 1285.
Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich.
Galerie & Edition Fischer, Berlin (by September 1998).
Acquired by the present owner, 1999.

Literature

K. van Lil, Otto Dix und der Erste Weltkrieg. Die Natur des Menschen in der Ausnahmesituation, Munich, 1999, p. 399 (illustrated).
U. Lorenz, Otto Dix, Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, Bonn, 2003, vol. I, p. 465, no. WK 6.4.53 (illustrated).

Sale Room Notice

Please note the additional information for the present lot:

Provenance:
Private collection, Germany; sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 26 November 1976, lot 1285.
Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich.
Galerie & Edition Fischer, Berlin (by September 1998).
Acquired by the present owner, 1999.

Literature:
K. van Lil, Otto Dix und der Erste Weltkrieg. Die Natur des Menschen in der Ausnahmesituation, Munich, 1999, p. 399 (illustrated).
U. Lorenz, Otto Dix, Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, Bonn, 2003, vol. I, p. 465, no. WK 6.4.53 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

The endless repetitive cycle of life and death is celebrated by Dix in Soldatentod/Soldatenlied through the depiction of a soldier on the point of death falling back into the embrace of the earth. An expression of weary resignation rests on his face as the forms of his body are depicted as seeming to dissolve into the whirling motion of the vast elemental forces all around him.

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