SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Art: Otto Dix

»Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (2 December 1891 - 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

Lustmord (Lust murder)

I n f o r m a t i o n

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century

I. Geographical Index: European History: German History

III. Topical Index: Types: Killing: Lust Murder

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Davis, Jessica. »War of the Vulva: The Women of Otto Dix's Lustmord Series.« German #MeToo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020. Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer et al. Rochester 2022: 145-170.

[Info] Lewis, Beth I. »Lustmord: Inside the Windows of the Metropolis.« Berlin: Culture & Metropolis. Edited by Charles W. Haxthausen et al. Minneapolis 1990: 111-140.

[Info] Lewis, Beth I. »Lustmord: Inside the Windows of the Metropolis.« Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture. Edited by Katharina von Ankum. Berkeley 1997: 202-232.

[Info] Murtagh, Lauren. Sexual Violence, Typologies of the Feminine, and Otto Weininger Revisited: The Lustmord Pictures of George Grosz. Master's Thesis, Columbia University, 2013.

[Info] Sharp, Ingrid. »Dangerous women: Woman as sexual criminal in the Weimar Republic.« Violence, Culture and Identity: Essays on German and Austrian Literature, Politics and Society. Edited by Helen Chambers. Bern 2006: 203-224.

[Info] Tatar, Maria. Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany. Princeton 1995.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Davis, Jessica. »War of the Vulva: The Women of Otto Dix's Lustmord Series.« Forty-Third Conference of the German Studies Association. San Diego 2019.

Der Krieg (The War)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The War (German: Der Krieg) is a series of 50 drypoint and aquatint etchings by German artist Otto Dix, catalogued by Florian Karsch as K.70 to K.119. The prints were published in Berlin in 1924 by Karl Nierendorf, in an edition which included separate high quality folio prints, and a lower-quality version with 24 prints bound together. It is often compared to Francisco Goya's series of 82 engravings The Disasters of War. The British Museum, which holds a complete set of the folio prints, has described the series as "Dix's central achievement as a graphic artist"; the auction house Christie's has described it as "one of the finest and most unflinching depictions of war in western art". (...)
Ten of the prints highlight the disproportionate burdens borne by soldiers in different branches of the armed forces: the infantrymen are mutilated, wounded, suffer, go mad and die, while sailors binge with prostitutes. One his prints, Soldat und Nonne ("Soldier and nun", K.120) – a graphic image of a soldier attempting to rape a nun – was withdrawn from the series before it was published, but another Soldat und Hure ("Soldier and whore", K.105) was included under the title Besuch bei Madame Germaine in Méricourt ("Visit to Madame Germaine's in Méricourt").« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century

I. Geographical Index: European History: German History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape; Wartime Sexual Violence: First World War

B i b l i o g r a p h y

Soldat und Nonne (Soldier and nun)

I. Author Index

[Info] Gispert, Marie. »Otto Dix's Soldier and Nun (Rape) (1924): A Testimony to War or Sexual Violence?« Erotic Art in Modern Germany: Visual Cultures of Sex, 1871-1945. Edited by Camilla Smith et al. London 2026: 191-208.

II. Speaker Index