Otto was born Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix in Germany on December 2nd, 1891. Dix was exposed to art at a young age as his mother was a seemstress and wrote poetry, while his father worked in the iron industry. He spent countless hours in his cousin, Fritz Amann’s (fig 1.1) studio which prompted him to start painting along with support from his school teacher. By 1910 at the age of 19 he began his first painting of landscapes. In 1910, he entered the Academy of Applied Arts in Dresden. Only five short years later, World War I began and Dix volunteered to serve in the German Army. In the war he was assigned as a non-commissioned officer of a machine-gun unit on the Western front (4). In August of 1918 he was shot and wounded in the neck and shortly
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Many vetrans could associate themselves with the art because of the intense anxieties that they faced after the war. A traumatic event or situation creates psychological trauma and it overwhelms the individual’s ability to cope, leaving that person fearing death or annihilation (4).The individual may feel overwhelmed in every way, emotionally, cognitively, and physically. The circumstances of the event deepen the severity of the condition which commonly includes betrayal of trust, entrapment, helplessness, pain, and confusion …show more content…
It includes responses to powerful one-time incidents like car accidents, natural disasters, crimes, surgeries, deaths, and other violent events such as war (3). It also includes responses to chronic or repetitive experiences such as combat in this case but also child abuse, neglect, violence, concentration camps, controlling relationships, and deprivation from something such as food (4). This definition intentionally does not allow us to determine whether a particular event is traumatic; that is up to each person and that is why it can be hard to diagnose. This definition provides a guideline for our understanding of one’s experience of the events and conditions of his/her life (4). It is hard to diagnose because you cannot simply tell somebody that he/she doesn’t feel a certain symptom, all mental illnesses are hard to diagnose in that way. With each world-wide catastrophic event, such as war, the verbiage and criteria to diagnose PTSD changes based off of new studies. PTSD can be known to all different types of people but is most associated with veterans. In Jonathan I. Bisson’s essay, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, he even argues that post-traumatic stress disorder can be prevented by having early interventions, in other words, recognizing the symptoms early on and getting help (2). At the time of World War I, symptoms of present-day PTSD were known as "shell shock" because they were seen as a reaction to the explosion of
Many vetrans could associate themselves with the art because of the intense anxieties that they faced after the war. A traumatic event or situation creates psychological trauma and it overwhelms the individual’s ability to cope, leaving that person fearing death or annihilation (4).The individual may feel overwhelmed in every way, emotionally, cognitively, and physically. The circumstances of the event deepen the severity of the condition which commonly includes betrayal of trust, entrapment, helplessness, pain, and confusion …show more content…
It includes responses to powerful one-time incidents like car accidents, natural disasters, crimes, surgeries, deaths, and other violent events such as war (3). It also includes responses to chronic or repetitive experiences such as combat in this case but also child abuse, neglect, violence, concentration camps, controlling relationships, and deprivation from something such as food (4). This definition intentionally does not allow us to determine whether a particular event is traumatic; that is up to each person and that is why it can be hard to diagnose. This definition provides a guideline for our understanding of one’s experience of the events and conditions of his/her life (4). It is hard to diagnose because you cannot simply tell somebody that he/she doesn’t feel a certain symptom, all mental illnesses are hard to diagnose in that way. With each world-wide catastrophic event, such as war, the verbiage and criteria to diagnose PTSD changes based off of new studies. PTSD can be known to all different types of people but is most associated with veterans. In Jonathan I. Bisson’s essay, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, he even argues that post-traumatic stress disorder can be prevented by having early interventions, in other words, recognizing the symptoms early on and getting help (2). At the time of World War I, symptoms of present-day PTSD were known as "shell shock" because they were seen as a reaction to the explosion of