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George Grosz
'The World Made Safe for Democracy'1919

Not on view
Black ink print on cream paper, caricatured military figure with oversized torso standing over three kneeling, shackled men, with text in French, German, and English below
Artist or Maker
George Grosz
Germany, also active United States, 1893-1959
Publisher
Der Malik Verlag
Germany, Berlin, 1917-
Title
'The World Made Safe for Democracy'
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919
Medium
Photolithograph on G. F. Drey Könige laid paper
Dimensions
Image (Image): 17 1/2 x 11 15/16 in. (44.45 x 30.3213 cm) Sheet: 19 × 15 3/8 in. (48.26 × 39.05 cm) Frame: 23 × 19 × 1 3/8 in. (58.42 × 48.26 × 3.49 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.73f
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, and Sabine Eckmann. New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.


  • Benson, Timothy O. and Andrea Gyorody. A New Generation of Creators: Selections from The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017.