Otto Dix was a leading German expressionist artist who depicted the carnage of the First World War in horrific detail. Displayed in this exhibition will be Dix’s famous 1924 cycle of prints, Der Krieg (The War), a compilation of 51 etchings with aquatint, regarded as one of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Dix was equally fascinated and horrified by war and his experiences fighting as a machine-gunner on the Western Front in 1915 had a profound effect on him. Modelled on the devastating war prints by Francisco Goya, Der Krieg cycle remains one of the most powerful indictments of war ever conceived. Full of hallucinatory, nightmarish imagery, Der Krieg continues to resonate powerfully as one of the most haunting documents of man’s inhumanity.

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