The artist, Otto Dix, bore witness to the horrors of the First World War, but he had also borne witness to the 19th century faith in inevitable, unstoppable progress. "Savagery and barbarism weren't external to be found only in the colonies, but inside all of us. They had seen that industry and progress and the supposed triumph of Enlightenment rationalism did not guarantee the survival of civilization (quoted from "The Cult of Progress." Civilizations, Season 1, Ep. 8). Artist: Otto Dix