Otto Dix

The German psyche was torn and fractured after the fall of its great empire.

And this sense of despair and foreboding was felt in the art of the time, whether it's the paintings of Otto Dix or the films of Wiener or Murnau or in literature, this was the time in which Jacques wrote Dr. Mabuse.

And with this backdrop, you can see the philosophies and ideas he was pushing with his text.

Yeah.

Because I'd seen them perform in a theatrical thing one night, I think something about God Hates Prawns and Celine Dion, it was actually really fantastic and avant-garde and engaging and clever.

And they were wearing these weird wigs that reminded me of an Otto Dix portrait and that was the aha moment where I went, okay, I've got to paint these guys.

This is fantastic.

And