Chalk Cliffs in the Sun (Kreidefelsen in der Sonne)

© DACS 2024. Image credit: The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

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Taken from a sketchbook compiled during the artist’s service in the German field artillery during the First World War, this drawing depicts a devastated landscape with burgeoning flowers beneath a rising sun. The formal composition – a sequence of fragmented and interlocking planes – demonstrates the influence Cubism in this representation of destruction and future hopes for renewal and new life. The experience of war became a dominant motif in Dix’s work until the 1930s.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Birmingham

Title

Chalk Cliffs in the Sun (Kreidefelsen in der Sonne)

Date

1916

Medium

black chalk on beige paper

Measurements

H 28.4 x W 20.8 cm

Accession number

92.5

Acquisition method

purchased, 1992

Work type

Drawing

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