This painting or sketch was drawn by a WW1 German veteran, Otto Dix, as part of his 1924 monumental portfolio “Der Krieg,” showing a vast, barren field pockmarked with artillery shell craters that evokes the vibe of a hellish lunar moonscape. The art captures the grim image of a soldier’s perspective from the trenches. The use of stark contrast between light and shadow captures the desolation, devastation and the unknown that lies beyond the shell craters. Otto Dix, who was an artist and a soldier attached to a machine gun unit in the Western Front, particularly the battle of the Somme, was profoundly compelled by the horrors he experienced: decaying bodies, the screams of his comrades, the hail of machine gunfire, and shells pounding the battlefield. All these elements shape a realistic depiction in his art and later anti-war criticisms, such as the Nazi regime in WW2.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/14/art-apocalypse-otto-dix-first-world-war-der-krieg-in-pictures

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Dix

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/14/first-world-war-german-art-otto-dix