The Skat Players

The Skat Players (German: Die Skatspieler) is an oil-and-collage-on-canvas painting executed by Otto Dix in 1920. It depicts disabled veterans of the First World War playing a card game. It has the dimensions of 110 by 88 cm. It is held at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. He also had the later title of Kartenspielende Kriegskrüppel (War cripples playing cards).^[1] It was one of the first works of the artist in the style of New Objectivity.^[2]

History and description

The painting represents three mutilated veterans of the First World War playing a card game named skat, very popular in Germany. It is part of a series of four paintings inspired by the post-World War I atmosphere executed in 1920: The Street in Prague, The Match Seller, The Skat Players and The Barricade.^[3]

After the war, there were 1,500,000 mutilated German soldiers, including 800,000 amputees.^[4] Dix had seen three war veterans, horribly mutilated, playing cards in the back room of a Dresden cafe. He immediately made a preparatory drawing of the scene. The final painting is rather morbid, since he further accentuated the horrific character of the scene: for example, he removed the two leg stumps of the character on the right of which only the torso remains, dressed in a blue jacket from which the penis protrudes. One of the players holds his cards in his mouth, the second with his toes, and the other with a mechanical hand.^[5] Part of the head of the player on the left is burnt, and his left leg was replaced by a stick.

The player on the right has a mechanical lower jaw, formed by a fragment of a cigarette pack where Dix wrote jokingly "Unterkiefer: Prothese Mark: Dix", which means "lower jaw prosthesis, mark Dix", and is surrounded by a photo of himself who reads “Nur echt mit dem Bild des Erfinders”, meaning "only valid with the portrait of the inventor".^[6] Behind the three players, three newspapers are suspended: the Dresdner Anzeiger, the Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, and the Berliner Tageblatt.^[7] Inside the lamp, there is a skull.

Provenance

The painting would have been considered degenerate art by the Nazi regimen, so it was hidden by a friend. It survived the bombing of Dresden in February 1945. After World War II, a collector bought it in 1959 and lent it to the Galerie der Stadt in Stuttgart. His heirs sold it in 1995 to the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which appealed for donations in order to acquire it.^[8]

References

^ Fritz Löffler, Otto Dix, Bongers, 1981, p. 18 (German)
^ Brigid S. Barton, Otto Dix and Die neue Sachlichkeit, 1918-1925, UMI Research Press, 1981, p. 51 (German)
^ Richard Leeman, Images Politiques, Centre Pierre Francastel, 2004, p. 21 (French)
^ Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich, Penguin Books, 2005, p. 105
^ Sabine Rewald, Ian Buruma and Matthias Eberle, Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, p. 57
^ Juliana D. Kreinik, The Canvas and the Camera in Weimar Germany: A New Objectivity in Painting and Photography of the 1920s, ProQuest, 2008, p. 94
^ Roland März, "Otto Dix, Die Skatspieler: Eine Neuerwerbung fur die Nationalgalerie", Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, vol. 32, 1995, p. 364 (German)
^ Roland März, "Otto Dix, Die Skatspieler: Eine Neuerwerbung fur die Nationalgalerie", Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, vol. 32, 1995, p. 364 (German)

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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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