Er hat Hindenburg verspottet (He Made Fun of Hindenburg) from Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
1920
Medium
lithograph on card from a bound volume with 16 lithographs (including cover), eight woodcuts, and eight photomechanical reproductions
Dimensions
book: 33 × 25 × 1.3 cm (13 × 9 13/16 × 1/2 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of her husband Milton Rose
Accession Number
2014.7.3.9
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...