"Konstellation".

Woodcut, 37,5 x 35 cm, wove paper, signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist "15/30 Konsellation DX 20".

From the portfolio Nine Woodcuts (Neun Holzschnitte). Otto Dix aggressively implies in this portfolio that sex is the force driving all men. Die Prominenten (Konstellation) (The celebrities [constellation]) reveals Dix's skepticism toward exuberant promises of a better future: four ideologues share a single body, espousing a manifesto of love, fatherland, order, and Dada. Although still indebted stylistically to the Expressionist techniques of distortion, the Futurist fracturing of picture planes, and the Cubist use of collage, Dix has already discovered the power of scathing social critique in these early woodcuts, which count as some of his first prints. He made woodcuts only briefly, between 1919 and 1920, and then gave up the medium entirely.