Otto Dix is a painter of epochal importance for modern art history and a chronicler of his time. Like hardly any other German artist, he captured the experiences of the First World War, the emotional state of the people of his time, especially the Weimar Republic, and the taboo fringes of society on canvas. His injured and vulnerable characters, the loneliness of human existence, being in the fury of war were his themes, and he painted them mercilessly directly and unembellished. The documentation works with quotations from letters and interviews, shows filmed archive material of the artist in which he talks about his work. In addition to dealing with violence and war, the film pays special attention to the role of his family.—ARTE