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Erinnerung an New York (Memory of New York)
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Extra portfolio label
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Mondnacht (Moonlight Night)
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Kaschemme (Joint)
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Peripherie (Outskirts)
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Vorstadt (Suburb)
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Menschen in der Strasse (People in the Street)
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Strasse in der Stadt (Street in the City)
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Am Kanal (At the Canal)
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Texasbild für meinen Freund Chingachgook (Texas Picture for My Friend Chingachgook)
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Title:Erste George Grosz-Mappe
Artist:George Grosz (American (born Germany), Berlin 1893–1959 Berlin)
Publisher:Heinz Barger Verlag (previously Verlag Neue Jugend)
Date:1917
Medium:Portfolio of nine lithographs
Edition:18/120
Dimensions:Each lithograph: 19 3/4 × 15 3/8 in. (50.2 × 39.1 cm) Title page: 19 3/4 × 15 3/8 in. (50.2 × 39.1 cm) Portfolio folder: 20 3/8 × 16 1/8 × 3/8 in. (51.8 × 41 × 1 cm) Extra portfolio label: 3 7/8 × 6 1/4 in. (9.8 × 15.9 cm)
Classification:Prints
Credit Line:Purchase, Gift of Mala Rubinstein Silson, by exchange, 2001
Accession Number:2001.161a-i
Inscription: Title page inscribed: Nr. 18; porfolio folder inscribed and dated: Erste / George Grosz - Mappe / 1917; extra porfolio folder inscribed and dated: Erste / George Grosz - Mappe / 1917; "Erinnerung an New York" (lithograph) inscribed (lower left, on verso): Erinnerung an New York / George Grosz; "Straße in der Stadt" (lithograph) inscribed (lower left, on verso): ...der Stadt / ...sz; "Menschen in der Straße" (lithograph) inscribed (lower left, on verso): Menschen in der Stadt; "Vorstadt" (lithograph) inscribed (lower left, on verso): Vorsta_t / [entire phrase crossed out]: ____ in der Stadt; "Kaschemme" (lithograph) inscribed (lower left): __ Grosz Original Lithographie / ___aschemme Nr. 18 / Sonderdruck auf Kaiserlich Japan
[Jürgen Holstein, Berlin, in 1985; sold to Auvermann]; [Auvermann & Reiss, Glashütten, until 2000; sold in September 2000 to Ars Libri]; [Ars Libri, Ltd., Boston, 2000–2001; sold to MMA]
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "German Drawings and Prints from the Weimar Republic (1919–33)," July 2–October 31, 2004, no catalogue (plate 5, 2001.161e only, as "Berlin Street Scene").
Ludwig Coellen. "Die erste George Grosz-Mappe." Das Kunstblatt 1 (January 1917), pp. 348–49.
Beth Irwin Lewis. George Grosz: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic. Madison, 1971, pp. 30, 46–47, 51, 272, figs. 8 ("Memory of New York"), 11 ("People in the Street") (unknown edition).
Herbert Knust. "George Grosz: Literature and Caricature." Comparative Literature Studies 12 (September 1975), p. 230.
George Grosz. The Autobiography of George Grosz: A Small Yes and a Big No. London, 1982, ill. p. 71 ("Erinnerung an New York") (unknown edition), calls it "Vision of New York" and dates it 1915.
Jürgen Holstein. Eine Auswahl: Bücher, Graphik, Dokumente. Katalog 100. [Berlin], 1985, unpaginated, ill. ("Erinnerung an New York").
Alexander Dückers. "Portfolios." German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Vol. 1, Los Angeles, 1989, pp. 86, 88, 90, 98–99, figs. 128, 130, 132 ("Peripherie", "Erinnerung an New York", and "Menschen in der Strasse") (not this edition).
Bruce Davis. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Vol. 2, Catalogue of the Collection. Los Angeles, 1989, p. 259, no. 950, ill. (edition 21/120; collection Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Beeke Sell Tower inEnvisioning America: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs by George Grosz and his Contemporaries 1915–1933. Exh. cat., Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass., 1990, pp. 24–26, 113, no. 7, fig. 9 ("Texasbild für meinen Freund Chingachgook") (not this edition, collection Busch-Reisinger Museum), dates it 1915–16.
Beth Irwin Lewis. "'Lustmord': Inside the Windows of the Metropolis." Berlin: Culture and Metropolis. Ed. Charles W. Haxthausen and Heidrun Suhr. Minneapolis, 1990, pp. 111–14, fig. 21 ("Menschen in der Straße") (not this edition, collection Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
John Czaplicka inEnvisioning America: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs by George Grosz and his Contemporaries 1915–1933. Exh. cat., Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass., 1990, pp. 44–46, 114, no. 19, fig. 35 ("Erinnerung an New York") (not this edition, collection Busch-Reisinger Museum), dates it 1915–16.
Alexander Dückers. George Grosz: Das druckgraphische Werk / The Graphic Work. Rev. ed. (German ed., 1979). San Francisco, 1996, pp. 182–86, 258, 332–35, no. M I, ill. pp. 51–53, dates it late 1916–early 1917; clarifies the details surrounding the portfolio's publication; notes the portfolio's production was transferred to Malik-Verlag.
George Grosz. George Grosz: An Autobiography. Berkeley, 1998, ill. p. 230 ("Erinnerung an New York") (unknown edition), calls it "New York" and dates it 1915.
Ars Libri, Ltd. Modern + Contemporary Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde, Including the Libraries of Mario Diacono and Michael Ilk. Boston, 2000, p. 46, no. 170, ill. p. 47 ("Erinnerung an New York").
Kristin Makholm, Sarah B. Kirk, with Gretchen L. Wagner inGerman Expressionist Prints: The Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee, 2003, pp. 118–19, no. 109, ill. ("Mondnacht") (not this edition), date it 1916–17.
Michael White. "The Grosz Case: Paranoia, Self-Hatred, and Anti-Semitism." Oxford Art Journal 30, no. 3 (2007), pp. 442–43, fig. 13 ("Mondnacht") (unknown edition).
Jürgen and Waltraud Holstein. Bücher, Kunst und Kataloge. Berlin, 2007, p. 16.
Sabine Rewald. George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye. Exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. New York, 2022, pp. 20–21, figs. 7 and 8 (color, "Kaschemme (Joint)" and "Erinnerung an New York (Memory of New York)").
George Grosz (American (born Germany), Berlin 1893–1959 Berlin)
1922–23
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