Dunes and Grass (Dünen und Strandgräser)
1949
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
etching and drypoint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 25 x 32.8 cm (9 13/16 x 12 15/16 in.) sheet: 33.1 x 41.9 cm (13 1/16 x 16 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook
Accession Number
1987.41.31
About the Artist
George Grosz
George Grosz (1893–1959) was a German-American artist whose savage satirical drawings and paintings became some of the most powerful visual critiques of militarism, capitalism, and social decay in twentieth-century art. Born Georg Ehrenfried Gross in Berlin, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Berlin School of Arts and Crafts before serving in World War I, an experience that rad...