Dix started 1905 his training to become an ornamental painter in 1905.
Otto volunteered at the beginning of the First World War.
As a private he took part in battles and
experienced the horror of the trench warfare first hand. Dix was wounded several times, amongst other
things by shell fragments.
Dix described war as an irreversible element into the cycle of becoming and passing.
Dix produced a lot of drawings and paintings in the trenches. As a result of this the terror of the war gave
him new inspiration.
