20,000-30,000
The graphic work of George Grosz from this period (1919-1928), which included this portfolio, and five others of similar content, is arguably his most significant artistic contribution.
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677. George Grosz (German, 1893-1959), “Gott mit Uns”, c. 1920; portfolio of nine lithographs, in its original case, each pencil signed (specific description of each print follows); printed by Der Malik-Verlag, Berlin (headed by Grosz’s friend, Wieland Herzfelde). This portfolio is edition “B-32”. Grosz was arrested and fined five thousand reichsmarks for the satirical content of this portfolio. Grosz was a propagandist for the social revolution, and joined the German Communist party in 1922. He was disillusioned by the Russians, and quit the party, but then became a leader of Berlin’s Rote Gruppe, an organization of revolutionary Communist artists. Grosz’s activities were not unnoticed, and he began to feel an increasing threat from the establishment to his personal safety. After receiving an invitation to teach at the Art Students League in New York, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1933, and became a U.S. citizen in 1938. REF: Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, Barron (LACMA). 20,000-30,000 The graphic work of George Grosz from this period (1919-1928), which included this portfolio, and five others of similar content, is arguably his most significant artistic contribution. |
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