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Otto Dix's Definitive Artistic Statement

Season 1 Episode 8 | 3m 44s

Otto Dix and his generation had borne witness to the horrors of World War I. They'd also been witness to the death of the nineteenth century faith in an inevitable, unstoppable progress.

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