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The present work is one of a number of drawings and watercolours which Dix executed around 1922, inspired by photographs taken during and after the First World War. Dix got his friend, the photographer Hugo Erfuth, to enlarge the photographs for him. Many of these were later used by Ernst Friedrich in his anti-war book Krieg dem Kriege which was published in 1924. During the war, Dix had not drawn or painted many of its actual atrocities, concentrating instead on the abstract energies that the war had released. It was only afterwards, when Germany had been defeated, when thousands of begging war cripples began to fill the streets, that Dix faced up to the horrors of the war.
In an interview in 1965 Dix described this delayed reaction to Maria Wetzel: "you don't notice, as a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through." (Otto Dix 1891-1969, Exh. cat., London, 1992, p. 140).
Dix used similar images in his print series War of 1924 and in his major oil painting The Trench of 1923.
In an interview in 1965 Dix described this delayed reaction to Maria Wetzel: "you don't notice, as a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through." (Otto Dix 1891-1969, Exh. cat., London, 1992, p. 140).
Dix used similar images in his print series War of 1924 and in his major oil painting The Trench of 1923.