- Artist or Maker
- Lea Grundig
Germany, also active Palestine, 1906-1977 - Title
- After Work on the Highway
- Date Made
- 1936, printed 1973-77
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 21 1/8 × 16 5/8 in. (53.66 × 42.23 cm)
Image: 9 7/8 × 13 1/8 in. (25.08 × 33.34 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2019.27.2
- Collecting Area
- Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
- Curatorial Notes
Lea Langer Grundig was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, but she rejected the strict limitations placed on women in her community and left home to study art. In 1926, Grundig and her husband, artist Hans Grundig, joined the Communist Party. Her work reflected her political commitments and focused on the lives of the working poor. This etching likely depicts the suffering of forced laborers constructing the Autobahn under Nazi rule. “What I make isan art of necessity,” she once observed. “Whether it is art in the academic sense doesn’t interest me.”
Exhibition Label: Women’s Work: Art by Women in Germany, 1900–1933, 2021, Erin Maynes.
- Selected Bibliography
- Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
- Selected Exhibition History
- Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023
- Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023
