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Date: 23/08/22
"Der Triumph der Taugenichtse"
(German: "The Triumph Of The Good-for-nothing")
On the Twitter feed of the ever-estimable Philip Challinor yesterday was a re-tweet of this painting - entitled Der Triumph des Todes (The Triumph of Death) - by the twentieth-century German artist Otto Dix:
So far, so Neue Sachlichkeit. But I want you to look at the detail at the bottom of the picture:
Does that remind you of anyone?
