Otto Dix: A Controversial Artist

The expression of a painter in their artworks sometimes produce a controversy. One of German painter, Otto Dix, was considered as a controversial artist in his era. Most of his works caused massive public attention since it clashed with the ideologies. He was a German soldier in World War I. He known as an Expressionist, Dadaist, and New Objectivist. In 1919, he founded Dresden Secession, a radical group that contrast to the early Expressionist which presented broad variety of styles and political stances (Gutbrod and Dix 2010). He took part in Berlin Dadaists where one of his controversial painting “The War Cripple” (fig.2) was exhibited.
Otto Dix has almost anarchist outlook of life since he viewed political ideologies as a barriers to find