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Lithograph. Impression size 30x21.5 cm (11¾x8½") on a larger sheet, approximately 36x26.5 cm (15¼x10½"). Tipped to matting. One of 50 signed copies on wove paper.

Signed in pencil at lower right. Plate 4 from Grosz's 1923 portfolio of 100 lithographs, Ecce Homo. This print from the Deluxe portfolio edition, limited to fifty copies with each print signed.

George Grosz (German 1893-1959) is associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, along with Otto Dix and Max Beckmann. He was a member of the Berlin Dada group as well as associated with the German Expressionists. As a soldier in World War I Grosz witness the devastation of war which caused his art to comment on social criticism and the decay of German society as he saw it. He was a leftist activist contributing drawings in satirical and critical periodicals. His art was labeled as degenerate by the Nazis and displayed in the famous The “Degenerate Art Exhibition” in Munich 1937 which was designed to foster outrage with the public against un-German, Jewish and Communist art. He immigrated to the US in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938.