Otto Dix

[German Expressionist Painter, 1891-1969]

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. No knowledge! I do not want to know him at all, I only want to see what is there, on the outside. The inner follows by itself. It is mirrored in the visible.
- Otto Dix

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix /pronounced ˈvɪlhɛlm haɪnʀiç ɔto dɪks/ (2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker. Noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and of the brutality of war, he, along with George Grosz, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkei