The Skat Players (German: Die Skatspieler) is an oil-and-collage-on-canvas painting executed by Otto Dix in 1920.
[2] The painting represents three mutilated veterans of the First World War playing a card game named skat, very popular in Germany.
It is part of a series of four paintings inspired by the post-World War I atmosphere executed in 1920: The Street in Prague, The Match Seller, The Skat Players and The Barricade.
[4] Dix had seen three war veterans, horribly mutilated, playing cards in the back room of a Dresden cafe.
After World War II, a collector bought it in 1959 and lent it to the Galerie der Stadt in Stuttgart.