Morganmobile: Justice
Otto Dix’s satirical drawing decries the widening economic disparity dividing the social classes in Weimar Germany. In the highly detailed foreground, an array of extravagantly attired bourgeois drink champagne in a sumptuous setting. Dix adopts a more summary and straightforward approach to representing the proletarians in the background, whose slogan, “Wir wollen Brot!” (“We want bread!”), gives the drawing its name.
Otto Dix (German 1891−1969), We Want Bread! (Wir wollen Brot!), 1923. India ink over traces of graphite pencil on wove paper, 15 1/4 x 16 3/4 inches (38.7 x 42.6 cm). Bequest of Fred Ebb, 2005.125.
© Otto Dix/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn