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Object Details

Artist
George Grosz, American, b. Berlin, Germany, 1893–1959
Date
1915
Medium
Oil and charcoal on canvas
Dimensions
24 × 15 7/8 in. (61 × 40.3 cm)
Collection Object Type
Painting
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Accession Number
66.2282

Otto Schmalhausen
Galerie van Diemen, Berlin, by 1922
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, to 30 October 1954
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 30 October 1954-17 May 1966
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
FORUM GALLERY AND E. V. THAW, New York. "George Grosz 1893-1959," 24 September-12 October 1963, cat. no. 6.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "George Grosz: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 13 September 1978-14 January 1979, no. 3, ill. p. 13.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART. "German Expressionism after the Great War: the Second Generation," 9 October-31 December 1988. TOUR: FORT WORTH ART MUSEUM, Texas, 2 February-9 April 1989; KUNST MUSEUM DUSSELDORF, Germany, May-July; STAATLICHE GALERIE MORITZBURG, Halle, Germany, August- September.
NEUE NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin, Germany. "George Grosz: Berlin-New York," 21 December 1994-17 April 1995, no. IX.4, p. 318, colorpl. p. 319. TOUR: KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN WESTFALEN, Dusseldorf, 6 May-30 July; STAATSGALERIE STUTTGART, September-December.
ZEITGEIST-GESELLSCHAFT, Berlin (organizer); MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU, Berlin (venue). "The Age of Modernism: Art in the 20th Century," 7 May-27 July 1997, no. 221, colorpl., n.p.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Kamakura, Japan. "George Grosz: Berlin-New York," 8 April-21 May 2000, no. I-3, p. 172, colorpl., p. 31. TOUR: ITAMI CITY MUSEUM OF ART, Itami, 10 June-30 July, ill. on leaflet, postcard; TOCHIGI PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Tochigi, 6 August-24 September, ill. on leaflet.
CASTELLO DI RIVOLI MUSEO D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Rivoli, Italy. "Faces in a Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism," 4 April - 10 July 2005. TOUR: WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, London, 3 December 2004 - 27 February 2005.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Manifesto: Art x Agency," 15 June 2019-31 January 2020.

FRIEDLAENDER, SALOMO [Myrona, pseud.]. George Grosz (Dresden: Rudolph Kaemmerer, 1922), ill. p. 88.
SCHISGALL, JANE. "The Arts in Two Societies: Some Implications for Student Education," Social Education (October 1983), ill. p. 411.
UNSIGNED. "Berlin," The Wilson Quarterly (Summer 1988), ill. p. 103.
WOLFF, JANET. Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture (Oxford: Polity, 1990), no. 4, ill. n.p.
JENTSCH, RALPH. George Grosz: The Berlin Years (Milan: Electra, 1997), no. 159, ill. p. 62.
REWALD, SABINE, and IAN BURUMA. George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye (New York: Metropolitan Museum and Art, 2022), color ill. p. 61.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 34, p. 59.
See file for further info.

Signature
Signed on verso UR in oil: Grosz
Inscriptions
Inscribed on verso UR in oil: 1915 Sudende

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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