Stop and Look: Metropolis (Großstadt) by Otto Dix
Dix was a vivid recorder of the fertile yet brittle culture of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s.
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Dix was a vivid recorder of the fertile yet brittle culture of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s.
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