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Title:German Men
Artist:George Grosz (American (born Germany), Berlin 1893–1959 Berlin)
Date:1922
Medium:Pen and black ink on paper
Dimensions:23 in. × 15 3/4 in. (58.4 × 40 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Priscilla A. B. Henderson, in memory of her grandfather, Russell Sturgis, a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950
Accession Number:50.113.2
Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (lower right, in black and brown inks): Grosz / 1920 / Berlin
the artist, Berlin and New York (1922–at least 1933); [Associated American Artists, New York, by 1940–at least 1941]; Priscilla A. B. Henderson (until 1950; her gift to MMA)
Art Institute of Chicago. "George Grosz: A Survey of His Art from 1918 to 1938," December 15, 1938–January 15, 1939, no catalogue (checklist, drawing no. 5, as "Street in Berlin") [probably this picture].
Iowa City. State University of Iowa. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz," January 4–25, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Des Moines, Iowa. Des Moines Fine Arts Association. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz," February 1–22, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Kansas City, Mo. William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz," March 1–22, 1941, unnumbered cat.
San Francisco. M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz," March 29–April 19, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Seattle. Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz," April 26–May 17, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Honolulu Academy of Arts. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz," June 17–August 13, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz," October 7–November 2, 1941, unnumbered cat. (as "Street Scene, Berlin," lent by Associated American Artists).
Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Museum of Art. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz," November 24–December 6, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Cambridge, Mass. Germanic Museum, Harvard University. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz," January 5–26, 1942, unnumbered cat.
Cincinnati Modern Art Society. "George Grosz: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Art," February 10–March 1, 1942, unnumbered cat. (as "Street Scene, Berlin," lent by Associated American Artists).
Milwaukee Art Institute. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz," March 8–29, 1942, unnumbered cat.
New York. Forum Gallery. "George Grosz, 1893–1959," September 24–October 12, 1963, no. 25 (as "Berlin Street").
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "German Realism of the Twenties: The Artist as Social Critic," September 18–November 9, 1980, no. 71 (as "Berlin Street Café").
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "German Realism of the Twenties: The Artist as Social Critic," November 22, 1980–January 17, 1981, no. 71.
New York. Pratt Graphics Center. "The Art of Satire: Painters as Caricaturists and Cartoonists from Delacroix to Picasso," May 19–June 16, 1984, not in catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Faces and Figures: German and Austrian Artists, 1918–1933," December 15, 1992–April 12, 1993, no catalogue.
Berlin. Altes Museum. "Die letzen Tage der Menschheit—Bilder des Ersten Weltkrieges," June 10–August 28, 1994, no. II/194.
London. Barbican Art Gallery. "A Bitter Truth— Avant-Garde Art and the Great War," September 29–December 11, 1994, not in catalogue.
Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. "George Grosz: Berlin—New York," December 21, 1994–April 17, 1995, no. X.87 (as "Deutsche Männer").
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours, and Prints, 1912–1930," March 20–June 8, 1997, no. 81.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "German Drawings and Prints from the Weimar Republic (1919–33)," July 2–October 31, 2004, no catalogue.
New York. Neue Galerie. "Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933," October 1, 2015–January 4, 2016, no. 5.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. "Glitzer und Gift der Zwanzigerjahre. George Grosz in Berlin," November 18, 2022–February 26, 2023, no. 23.
Mynona [Salomo Friedlaender]. George Grosz. Dresden, 1922, p. 45, ill. p. 85, calls it "Männer" and dates it 1921.
"George Grosz: First Complete View of a Satirist in Chicago." Art News 37 (January 7, 1939), p. 8 [probably this picture].
Herbert Bittner, ed. George Grosz. New York, 1960, p. 47, pl. 38.
George Grosz. Ecce Homo. (1st ed., Berlin, 1923). New York, 1966, pl. 71, calls it "German Men" and dates it 1922.
Beth Irwin Lewis inGerman Realism of the Twenties: Artist as Social Critic. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis, 1980, p. 156, no. 71, fig. 2 and ill. p. 156.
Riva Castleman. A Century of Artists Books. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1994, pp. 18, 50–51, 160, 239.
Alexander Dückers. George Grosz: Das druckgraphische Werk / The Graphic Work. Rev. ed. (German ed., 1979). San Francisco, 1996, p. 371, under no. S I, 71, ill. p. 84 (as published in "Ecco Homo"), notes that this work was inscribed and dated later, when Grosz was residing in the United States; dates it 1921, based on the published date in Ref. Mynona 1922.
Frank Whitford inThe Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 1912–1930. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts. London, 1997, p. 119, no. 81, ill.
Mario Vargas Llosa. "Private View I: George Grosz. 'You nourish yourself with everything you hate'." Tate Etc. no. 9 (Spring 2007), ill. p. 76.
Sabine Rewald. George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye. Exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. New York, 2022, pp. 96, 171 n. 4, no. 23, ill. p. 103 (color), dates it 1920.
George Grosz (American (born Germany), Berlin 1893–1959 Berlin)
1920
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