DETAILS
- Artist
- George Grosz
- Date
- 1922
- Medium
- Portfolio cover
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 71.5 × 50 × 1 cm (28 3/16 × 19 11/16 × 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Germany
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Bergman
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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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