Otto Dix

Otto Dix was one of the greatest German Expressionist painters. The movement was conceived in opposition of Impressionism.  
The Expressionist painted with raw passion. Creating emotionally dramatic images with pure color and striking originality. Otto Dixasserted "All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time."

 Expressionist painters looked inward at their own emotions, and less on the outside world. Painters of the Expressionist generation grew up on the battlefield, witnessing wartime atrocities and returning to war ravaged countries.