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George Grosz

Die drei Soldaten und die Reichen
1932

reed pen, pen and Indian ink on paper

56 × 36.7 cm / 22 1/16 × 14 7/16 in

subsequently signed, "March 1943" dated and "Bert Brecht zur Erinnerung an die '3 Soldatenzeit'" und mit der Ortsangabe "Douglaston" dedicated

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Expertise

Certificate of Authenticity by Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rom

Provenance

The artist’s studio, Berlin (1932); Collection George Grosz Douglaston, Long Island (until 1943); Collection Bertolt Brecht, Santa Monica (1943, as a present from the artist); Private Collection; Private Collection Austria

Exhibitions

Galerie Ludorff, Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2021, Düsseldorf 2021
Galerie Ludorff, "Masterpieces", Dusseldorf 2020

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2021", Düsseldorf 2021, S. 64
Galerie Ludorff, "Meisterwerke", Düsseldorf 2020, S. 60
Bertolt Brecht, "Versuche 13-19", Berlin/Frankfurt/M. 1959, S. 112
Bertolt Brecht, "Versuche 14. Die drei Soldaten. Ein Kinderbuch", Berlin 1932, S. 6

About George Grosz

The German-American painter and caricaturist George Grosz is one of the main representatives of New Objectivity. With his astute illustrations of Wilhelmine society, he criticized the political and social circumstances at the beginning of the 20th century.