"Let those swim who can - the heavy may sink." ("Schwimme, wer schwimmen kann, und wer zu plump ist, geh' unter!" (I.Akt, 1.Szene))
George Grosz
1921
Medium
lithograph in black
Dimensions
image: 43.66 × 37.94 cm (17 3/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1951.10.300
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...