Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the Thüringer Städte
Blick vom Rathausturm über Gera
Gera Untermhaus St. Marienkirche
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with
Gera
…retained buildings of the royal residence epoch and many public and private buildings from the economic heyday between 1870 and 1930. The famous painter Otto Dix was born in Gera in 1891. The place name Gera originally referred to the area of the Elster river valley where the city stands now. The first known…
Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas, etching and aquatint by Otto Dix, 1924
The Trench, 1920–23, lost
The Match Seller, 1920, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart