Artenaut on Instagram: "Otto Dix painted Skat Players in 1920, just two years after the end of World War I. Dix had served on the front lines himself, first as a volunteer and later as a machine-gunner. After the war, he became one of the most uncompromising artists of the Weimar Republic. This painting shows three German war veterans playing a game of skat, a popular card game. They are alive. But they are barely whole. Artificial jaws, prosthetic limbs, exposed flesh, mechanical supports — Dix

Otto Dix - Scathing Satirist of German Brutalities