Stormtroopers Advance Under a Gas Attack

Engraving by Otto Dix

Stormtroopers Advance Under a Gas Attack (German: Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor) is an engraving in aquatint by Otto Dix representing German soldiers in combat during the First World War. It is the twelfth in the series of fifty engravings entitled The War, published in 1924. Copies are kept at the German Historical Museum in Berlin, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among other public collections.

Description

The engraving is almost monochrome, rectangular in format (19.3 × 28.8 cm for the engraving, 34.8 × 47.3 cm for the sheet). The engraving represents five German stormtroopers, recognizable by their steel helmets, all wearing gas masks, as they are advancing into enemy lines, while suffering a gas attack.

References

v t e Otto Dix
Paintings	The Match Seller (1920) Prague Street (1920) The Skat Players (1920) To Beauty (1922) The Trench (1920–1923) Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber (1925) The Art Dealer Alfred Flechtheim (1926) Hugo Erfurth with Dog (1926) Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden (1926) Metropolis (1927–1928) The War (1932)
Engravings	Stormtroopers Advance Under a Gas Attack (1924) The War (1924)
Museums	Otto-Dix-Haus Museum Haus Dix
Related	New Objectivity Martha Dix (wife) Sylvia von Harden (model) The Painter Otto Dix and His Wife, Martha (1925-1926 photograph)

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