War Invalid and Workers (Kriegsinvalide und Arbeiter) from In the Shadows (Im Schatten)
After the war, Grosz turned to depictions of city life, which functioned as searing indictments of people he held responsible for the carnage of the war and the poverty that had overwhelmed the working class. Profiteers, military commanders, and all those who had promoted the war yet shirked their responsibility to help returning veterans were subject to his biting critique. Here, a simple line drawing, reproduced through photolithography, depicts a street in Weimar Germany. Prominently featured are wounded veterans still in uniform and largely ignored by busy pedestrians. While Grosz took a dark view of humanity, he rendered returning soldiers, workers, and impoverished women and children more sympathetically than wealthy capitalists and others in positions of authority.
Artwork Details
- Title: War Invalid and Workers (Kriegsinvalide und Arbeiter) from In the Shadows (Im Schatten)
- Series/Portfolio: In the Shadows (Im Schatten)
- Artist: George Grosz (American (born Germany), Berlin 1893–1959 Berlin)
- Date: 1920–21
- Medium: Photolithograph
- Dimensions: image: 14 1/16 x 11 3/16 inches (35.7 x 28.4 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931
- Object Number: 31.10.7
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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