Sale: 601 / Day Sale, Dec. 06. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125001085
Lot 125001085 
125001085
Otto Dix
Grabensoldat, 1915.
Gouache
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 35,100 - 46,800
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Grabensoldat. 1915.
Gouache.
Signed in the lower right. On brownish paper. 29 x 28.5 cm (11.4 x 11.2 in), the full sheet.
Dated 1915 in the Dix file. [MH].
• From the early years of World War I, when Otto Dix's critical view of war was already emerging.
• The depiction is not heroic, but deeply human and harrowing.
• The drawing marks an important transition in Dix's work from his expressive early work to the documentary sharpness of New Objectivity.
• “Trench Soldier” – a historical document with a timeless message to prevent oblivion.
PROVENANCE: Graf von der Goltz Collection, Düsseldorf.
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich (acquired from the above in 1968).
Galerie Kunstkabinett Klihm, Munich (acquired from the above).
Private collection.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 2013).
EXHIBITION: Otto Dix. Handzeichnungen 1912-1962, Deutsche Akademie der Künste, Berlin-Ost, 1963.
Otto Dix. Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Radierungen, Lithographien, Galerie Baukunst, Cologne, 1966, cat. no. 43.
LITERATURE: Suse Pfäffle, Otto Dix. Catalogue raisonné of watercolors and gouaches, Stuttgart 1991, CR no. G 1915/9 (illustrated).
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Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 1st auction, Modern Art, May 17/18, 1968, lot 216 (illustrated).
Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 173rd auction, Modern Art, June 4/5, 1970, lot 244 (illustrated).
Karl & Faber, Munich, 127th auction, Old and New Masters, May 26/27, 1971, lot 608 (illustrated).
Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 18th auction, Old and New Art, November 2–6, 1971, lot 1192 (illustrated).
Gouache.
Signed in the lower right. On brownish paper. 29 x 28.5 cm (11.4 x 11.2 in), the full sheet.
Dated 1915 in the Dix file. [MH].
• From the early years of World War I, when Otto Dix's critical view of war was already emerging.
• The depiction is not heroic, but deeply human and harrowing.
• The drawing marks an important transition in Dix's work from his expressive early work to the documentary sharpness of New Objectivity.
• “Trench Soldier” – a historical document with a timeless message to prevent oblivion.
PROVENANCE: Graf von der Goltz Collection, Düsseldorf.
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich (acquired from the above in 1968).
Galerie Kunstkabinett Klihm, Munich (acquired from the above).
Private collection.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 2013).
EXHIBITION: Otto Dix. Handzeichnungen 1912-1962, Deutsche Akademie der Künste, Berlin-Ost, 1963.
Otto Dix. Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Radierungen, Lithographien, Galerie Baukunst, Cologne, 1966, cat. no. 43.
LITERATURE: Suse Pfäffle, Otto Dix. Catalogue raisonné of watercolors and gouaches, Stuttgart 1991, CR no. G 1915/9 (illustrated).
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Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 1st auction, Modern Art, May 17/18, 1968, lot 216 (illustrated).
Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 173rd auction, Modern Art, June 4/5, 1970, lot 244 (illustrated).
Karl & Faber, Munich, 127th auction, Old and New Masters, May 26/27, 1971, lot 608 (illustrated).
Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 18th auction, Old and New Art, November 2–6, 1971, lot 1192 (illustrated).
125001085
Otto Dix
Grabensoldat, 1915.
Gouache
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 35,100 - 46,800
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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