Otto Dix was a German artist known for his grotesque portrait paintings and ghoulish visions of war. A member of the New Objectivity movement along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, Dix was heavily influenced by his time serving in the hellish trenches of World War I. His seminal painting The Trench (1923) was a forebear to the larger series of works Der Krieg (The War) (1929-32), which delves deep into the artist’s psyche. “Art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time,” he once reflected. “Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.” Born Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix on December 2, 1891 in Untermhaus, Germany, he moved to Dresden to study...