The End of a Perfect Day [Nach getaner Arbeit]
1939
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View on museum website →Medium
drypoint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 25.08 × 32.7 cm (9 7/8 × 12 7/8 in.) sheet: 31.27 × 39.37 cm (12 5/16 × 15 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.2481
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...