Der skatspieler otto dix biography
The Skat Players (1920) by Otto Dix – Artchive...
The Skat Players
Painting by Otto Dix
The Skat Players (German: Die Skatspieler) is an oil-and-collage-on-canvas painting executed by Otto Dix in 1920.
Der skatspieler otto dix biography
It depicts disabled veterans of the First World War playing a card game. It has the dimensions of 110 by 88 cm. It is held at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. He also had the later title of Kartenspielende Kriegskrüppel (War cripples playing cards).[1] It was one of the first works of the artist in the style of New Objectivity.[2]
History and description
The painting represents three mutilated veterans of the First World War playing a card game named skat, very popular in Germany.
It is part of a series of four paintings inspired by the post-World War I atmosphere executed in 1920: The Street in Prague, The Match Seller, The Skat Players and The Barricade.[3]
After the war, there were 1,500,000 mutilated German soldiers, including 800,000 amputees.[4] Dix had