History Art / TheSevenDeadlySinsDix

It was done as a deliberate allegory illustrating the political situation that was happening in [[UsefulNotes/NazyGermany Germany]] at the time, having made it after the Nazi Party deprived him of his teaching job at the Dresden Academy of Art.

* {{Allegory}}: The painting as a whole was made to be a {{Satire}} of interwar German society. Each of the SevenDeadlySins reflects a different, negative facet that has led to Fascism taking over. Greed, Gluttony, and Envy (who looks like Hitler) together mean that the fascists' ambition for a "better Germany" is jealousy over what other countries have. Sloth looks like the reaper because it signifies how complacency to tyranny leads to death and suffering. Lust represents both hunger for power and the ability to sell one's dignity to obtain riches. Wrath's demonic appearance represents how people lost their humanity when enraged. Along with Lust, it's the root of discrimination. Pride is a literal take on getting big-headed out of arrogance.

''The Seven Deadly Sins'', by Creator/OttoDix, is an oil and tempera {{painting|s}} made in 1933. It was done as a deliberate allegory illustrating the political situation that was happening in Germany at the time, having made it after the Nazi Party deprived him of his teaching job at the Dresden Academy of Art.

* TakeThat: Envy, the cross-eyed toddler riding on the back of a decrepit old woman representing Greed, is deliberately based on UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. The trimmed, square mustache is the major indication of this.

** Gluttony is the figure in the upper-righthand corner, wearing a cooking pot on its head.

** {{Pride}} is the giant-headed figure right behind Sloth, his giant nose turned up and his mouth looking like a sphincter.
** Gluttony is the figure in the upper-righthand corner, wearing a cooking pot on his head.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: It's an allegorical portrait of the SevenCardinalSins as monstrous-looking humanoids.

''The Seven Deadly Sins'', by Creator/OttoDix, is an Oil and tempera {{painting|s}} made in 1933. It was done as a deliberate allegory illustrating the political situation that was happening in Germany at the time, having made it after the Nazi Party deprived him of his teaching job at Dresden Academy of Art.

* {{Allegory}}: The painting as a whole was made to be a {{Satire}} of interwar German society.

** [[LazyBum Sloth]] is dressed in a head-to-toe skeleton costume carrying a SinisterScythe. It's signifies how complacency to tyranny leads to death and suffering.
** {{Lust}} is a woman in an orange dress that exposes one of her breasts.
** [[AngerTropes Wrath]] is the furry-horned demon to the left of Sloth.
** {{Pride}} is the giant-headed figure right behind Sloth, his giant nose turned up and his mouth looking like a sphincter.

* TakeThat: Envy, the cross-eyed toddler riding on the back of a decrepit old woman representing Greed, is deliberately based on UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.

** [[LazyBum Sloth]] is dressed in a head-to-toe skeleton costume carrying a SinisterScythe. WordOfGod claims that he further represents the German people's complacency in Fascism's rising tyranny.

* TakeThat: Envy -- the cross-eyed toddler riding on the back of a decrepit old woman representing Greed -- is deliberately based on UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. WordOfGod claims that he didn't add the mustache until after the war for fear of what the Nazis would have done to him.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The piece is an allegorical portrait portraying the SevenDeadlySins.

** [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]] is the toddler wearing the a mask with toothbrush mustache riding on Greed's back.

** [[AngerTropes Wrath]] is the furry-horned demon in the left of Sloth.

* TakeThat: Envy -- the cross-eyed toddler riding on the back of a decrepit old woman representing Greed -- is deliberately based off of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. WordOfGod claims that he didn't add the mustache until after the war for fear of what the Nazis would have done to him.

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''The Seven Deadly Sins'' by Otto Dix is an Oil and Tempera painting made in 1933. It was done as a deliberate allegory illustrating the political situation that was happening in Germany at the time, having made if after the Nazi Party deprived him of his teaching job at Dresden Academy of Art.

** {{Lust}} is a woman in an orange

* {{Allegory}}: The paitning as a whole was made to be a {{Satire}} of interwar German society.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The piece is an allegorical portrait betraying the SevenDeadlySins.

* {{Allegory}}: The paitning as a whole was made to be a {{Satire}} of interwar german society.

''The Seven Deadly Sins'' by Otto Dix is an Oil and Tempera painting made in 1933. It was done as a deliberate allegory illustrating the political situation that was happening in Germany at the time, having made if after the Nazi Party deprived him of his teacher job at Dresden Academy of Art.