| Timeline |
| 1891 |
Born 2 December near Gera, Germany |
| 1906 |
Studies decorative painting under Carl Senff |
| 1913 |
Painting trips to Austria and Italy |
| 1914 |
Front soldier in France, Flanders and Russia |
| 1914 |
Volunteers for the German Army |
| 1915-16 |
Serves on the Western Front |
| 1917 |
Serves on the Eastern front, returns to France after Russian peace |
| 1918 |
Awarded the Iron Cross |
| 1918 |
Founds "Neue Sachlichkeit" with George Grosz |
| 1919 |
Attends Dresden School of Arts and Crafts (until 1922) |
| 1919 |
Co-founds a secession called "Gruppe 19" |
| 1920 |
Participates in the First International Dada Fair |
| 1923 |
Is tried and acquitted for disseminating pornography because of his painting Girl in Front of a Mirror |
| 1923 |
Marries Martha Lindner in Duesseldorf |
| 1924 |
"The War", cycle, published |
| 1924 |
Participates in No More War! , a travelling exhibition |
| 1924 |
Participates in the "First General German Art Exhibit" in Moscow |
| 1925 |
Studies at the Duesseldorf Academy of Arts |
| 1927 |
Teaches at Dresden Academy |
| 1931 |
Member of the Prussian academy of the arts, Berlin |
| 1933 |
Dix's work is confiscated by the Nazis and then used to form the bulk of their travelling "Reflections of Degeneracy" |
| 1936 |
Moves to Switzerland |
| 1939 |
Arrested by the Gestapo because of alleged participation in a plot on Hitler's life |
| 1940 |
Conscripted into the Volkssturm (German Home Guard) |
| 1945 |
Forced to join the German Army; ends up a French prisoner of war |
| 1946 |
Released in February, returns to Dresden |
| 1956 |
Named a corresponding member of the German Academy |
| 1969 |
Dies 25 July in Singen am Hohentwiel
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