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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
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Work Title (display):
Are we not fit for the League of Nations
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Work Dates (display):
1919
Work Dates type:
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Work Creator (display):
George Grosz (German, 1893-1959)
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
German draughtsman and painter. Born in Berlin, Grosz spent his childhood in a cavalry barracks. He studied at the Dresden Academy (190912) and the Berlin Kunstgewerbeschule (191214) before volunteering for the army. Discharged as unfit in 1915, he was conscripted in 1917 and, mistakenly, sentenced to execution in 1918; from now on the German army was one of the principal targets of his savage and telling satires. Grosz and his fellow student John Heartfield (both Anglicized their names in 1917) had collaborated on Dada collages and journals during the war and in 1920 he was a leading figure in the first international Dada exhibition in Berlin. In the same year he published Gott mit uns, ten photolithographs of his spare and almost naive line drawings, a bitter attack on the German military for which he was arrested and fined. Undeterred he issued the satirical collection The Face of the Ruling Class in 1921. Further court appearances followed in 1923 and 1928. In his drawings and paintings, which assimilated elements from Cubism, Futurism, and, particularly, de Chirico's Pittura metafisica, Grosz established archetypal images of post-war German militarists and profiteers, exemplified by The Pillars of Society (1926; New York, MoMa) in which priest, soldier, businessman, editor, and aristocrat are mercilessly caricatured. As a Communist, atheist, and satirist Grosz was a natural target for the National Socialists but left for America in 1932. His American years were artistically disappointing and in 1959 he returned to Berlin, only to die in an accident. (Grove Art Online accessed 2007-10-17)
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drawings
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sketches
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Work Category (VRC classification):
drawings
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Work Material and Technique (display):
ink on paper
Work Measurements (display):
56 x 38.4 cm
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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creation
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Stuttgart, Germany
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Image Source Reproduction citation:
Chambers, Emma. Aftermath Art in the Wake of World War One. Tate Publishing, 2018.
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Chambers, Emma. Aftermath Art in the Wake of World War One. Tate Publishing, 2018.
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false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
9781849765671
Image Source Reproduction page number:
57
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
37
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ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin
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Work Rights (display):
public domain
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