Bow to the Authorities

© Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Bow to the Authorities

Alternate Title: Seid untertan der Obrigkeit
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Hintergrund
Portfolio (translation): Background
Plate: plate 2

Germany, 1927
Prints; portfolios
Photogravure
Image: 5 1/4 × 9 1/16 in. (13.34 × 23.02 cm) Sheet: 6 11/16 × 10 13/16 in. (16.99 × 27.46 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds (83.1.79b)
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
  • Dückers, Alexander. George Grosz: das druckgraphische Werk/Alexander Dückers. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Wien: Propyläen-Verlag, 1979.
  • Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
  • Dückers, Alexander. George Grosz: das druckgraphische Werk/Alexander Dückers. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Wien: Propyläen-Verlag, 1979.

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

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Exhibition history

  • Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany Los Angeles, CA, Charles White Elementary School, October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023