The Trench (Dix)

The Trench, but earlier known as The War Picture or simply Der Krieg, was an oil painting by the German artist Otto Dix. The large painting was made from 1920 to 1923, and was one of the several anti-war works by Dix in the 1920s, inspired by his experience of trench warfare in the First World War. The painting was immediately controversial when first exhibited in Cologne in 1923.

It was acquired by the Dresden City Museum in 1928 but not exhibited there. The work was condemned by the Nazis, confiscated and included in the exhibition of degenerate art held in Munich in 1937. It was sold to an art dealer in early 1940, but its fate is not known.

It is considered lost and may have been destroyed in the war.