Otto Dix (1891–1969) was a German expressionist painter and graphic artist, the author of emotionally intense paintings. Avant-gardist, in the 1920s was associated with Dadaism and Expressionism. Along with Georg Gross Dix was a representative of the so-called "new materiality". Dix's canvases are distinguished by social and pacifist motifs, painful spiritual quest. One of the founders of the Dresden Secession (1919).