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George Grosz
Unemployed1920-1921

Not on view
Lithograph or pen-and-ink print, urban street scene with several male figures in military and civilian dress, loose gestural black lines on cream paper

George Grosz, Unemployed, 1920-1921, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
George Grosz
Germany, also active United States, 1893-1959
Title
Unemployed
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1920-1921
Medium
Lithograph on thin laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 8 5/8 x 6 7/8 in. (21.91 x 17.46 cm); Sheet: 10 1/2 x 7 7/16 in. (26.67 x 18.89 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.85i
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • 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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • Dückers, Alexander. George Grosz: das druckgraphische Werk/Alexander Dückers. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Wien: Propyläen-Verlag, 1979.
  • Barron, Stephanie et al. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.

Copyright
© Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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