DETAILS
- Artist
- George Grosz
- Date
- 1939
- Medium
- Drypoint on cream wove paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Plate: 25.2 × 32.7 cm (9 15/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Sheet: 31.2 × 39.9 cm (12 5/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Germany
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph R. Shapiro
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George Grosz
George Grosz was a German artist renowned for his biting caricatures of Berlin life in the 1920s, capturing the cynicism of the Weimar Republic.
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