The Case of the Iron Club or Crime Does'nt Pay
1932
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View on museum website →Medium
collage over graphite with red ink on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 53.66 × 43.82 cm (21 1/8 × 17 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
2015.14.1
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...