"Under my rule it shall be brought to pass, that potatoes and small-beer shall be con sidered a holiday treat; and woe to him who meets my eye with the audacious front of health. Haggard want, and crouching fear, are my insignia; and in this livery I will clothe ye."("In meinem Gebiet soll's soweit kommen, das Kartoffeln und Dünnbier ein Traktament für Festtage werden, und wehe dem, der mir mit vollen feurigen Backen unter die Augen tritt! Blässe der Armut und sklavische Furcht sind meine Leibf arbe; in diese Livrei will ich euch kleiden.")
George Grosz
1920/1921
Medium
lithograph in black
Dimensions
image: 48.1 × 37.62 cm (18 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1951.10.294
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...