Marc Huehn, a New Objectivity painter, was born in Germany in 1894. When the First World War erupted in 1917, Huehn volunteered in the German Army and was stationed to a field artillery regiment based in Dresden. There, he met Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix, a renowned German painter and printmaker.

Although seriously wounded on a number of occasions, Marc Huehn survived the First World War. The death, carnage and suffering that he witnessed during the war were reflected in the themes of his subsequent artwork. His post-war paintings realistically depicted the emotional turmoil that had haunted him during the years following the war. He later joined the New Objectivity Movement with his friend, Otto Dix, an art movement that has risen during the Weimar Republic in early 1920s.

Marc Huehn’s paintings, by large, showcased what the Verists, the more objective and revolutionary group of New Objectivity artists, wanted to illustrate. Like Otto Dix’s and other prominent New Objectivity painters’ work, Huehn depicted the themes of the First World War in a provocative and satirical manner. His surviving paintings, although very few, strongly suggest his distaste for the war that was supposed “to end all wars”. Marc Huehn’s artwork were immensely popular during his days, but eventually fell out of favor when Adolf Hitler came to power.