War Cripples
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War Cripples (1920, Kriegskrüppel) is a work of art by Otto Dix in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
It unsparingly depicts four badly disfigured veterans of the First World War, then a familiar sight on Berlin's streets, rendered in caricatured style. Featured in the Degenerate Art exhibition, it would hang next to a label accusing Dix, himself a volunteer in World War I, of "an insult to the German heroes of the great war".
Dix's paintings The Trench and War Cripples were exhibited in the state-sponsored Munich 1937 exhibition of degenerate art.
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See also
- Horrors of war
- Gueules cassées
- Denkmal der unbekannten Prothesen
- War in art
- The War (Dix engravings)
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