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Among his most famous paintings are the triptych Metropolis ( 1928 ), a scornful portrayal of depraved actions of Germany's Weimar Republic, where nonstop revelry was a way to deal with the wartime defeat and financial catastrophe, and the startling Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden ( 1926 ).

His depictions of legless and disfigured veterans — a common sight on Berlin's streets in the 1920s — unveil the ugly side of war and illustrate their forgotten status within contemporary German society, a concept also developed in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.