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Otto Dix wanted to capture the essence of a person, no matter how negative

"He had such a clinical, nearly satirist viewpoint."

"He had such a clinical, nearly satirist viewpoint."

Curator Sabine Rewald on a portrait by Otto Dix.

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Photography by Mark Morosse

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