Otto Dix (1891-1969)

The endless repetitive cycle of life and death is celebrated by Dix in Soldatentod/Soldatenlied through the depiction of a soldier on the point of death falling back into the embrace of the earth. An expression of weary resignation rests on his face as the forms of his body are depicted as seeming to dissolve into the whirling motion of the vast elemental forces all around him.