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Prisoner

Prisoner

Artist/Maker (American, born in Germany, 1893–1959)
Date1919
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 14 3/4 × 10 1/4 in. (37.5 × 26 cm)
Sheet: 18 × 14 3/16 in. (45.7 × 36 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride
Object number1935.26
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York More Information
In this lithograph, a man in a military uniform stands with his wrists shackled, surrounded by Grosz's stock caricatures of men in power-figures in top hats and coattails chewing fat cigars, deciding the ultimate fate of the prisoner. In 1918, Grosz joined the Dadaists and later the Communist Party, both providing him with a foundation of creative and political support. By 1920, Grosz used his graphic work to illustrate the diverging economic classes in Germany and expose the German bourgeoisie, nouveau riche militarists and industrialists, and others deemed responsible for the ruin and degradation of German society.
Exhibition History
War and Anti-War Images from Four Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 21, 1982 - October 24, 1982 )
Love, Glory and Guns: Images of Peace and War from the Permanent Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 3, 1986 - November 16, 1986 )
From Expressionism to the New Objectivity: German Prints and Drawings, 1905-1945
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (June 28, 1988 - August 21, 1988 )
Utopia and Alienation: German Art and Expressionism, 1900-1935
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 17, 1999 - December 19, 1999 )
"To Make Things Visible": Art in the Shadow of World War I
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 3, 2009 - June 7, 2009 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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