The Pimps of Death

George Grosz, 1919

MEDIUMLithograph in black on ivory laid paper

DIMENSIONSImage/plate: 38.5 × 30.2 cm (15 3/16 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 47.8 × 38.9 cm (18 7/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

LOCATIONArt Institute of Chicago

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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.