Mommy and Daddy from Ecce Homo

Mommy and Daddy from Ecce Homo  is an  original seven-color offset lithograph, realized by  George Grosz.

The artwork is the plate n. V from the porfolio  Ecce Homo  published between 1922/1923,edition of Der Malik-Verlag Berli, that includes offset lithograph print.

Numbered on plate on lower margin.

Original title:  Pappi und Mammi

Good conditions except for a yellowing of paper due to the time, some foxings and some minor defects along the margin. 

 

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Mommy and Daddy from Ecce Homo  is an  original seven-color offset lithograph, realized by  George Grosz.

The artwork is the plate n. V from the porfolio Ecce Homo  published between 1922/1923,edition of  Der Malik-Verlag Berli, that includes offset lithograph print.

Numbered on plate on lower margin.

Original title:   Pappi und Mammi

Good conditions except for a yellowing of paper due to the time, some foxings and some minor defects along the margin. 

Ecce homo  is a selected compendium of 100 artworks (16 watercolors and 84 drawings) that Grosz realized from 1915 to 1922. The book is a real satire of post-war German life, with prostitutes, politicians, mutilated veterans,capitalists, and drunks in different states of despair, lust, and rage. The German government banned his artworks and Grosz was put on trial for public offense.

George Grosz (1893 -1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic.

He studied drawing at the Dresden Academy 1909-11 and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin 1912-14, He was in the army 1914-15 and again for a  short time in 1917, but spent the rest of the war in Berlin where he made violently anti-war drawings, in which his main focus was attacking the social corruption of Germany (capitalists, prostitutes, the Prussian military caste, the middle class). 

His artworks had great impact in the Berlin Dada movement 1917-20 and collaborated with John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann in the invention of photomontage.  Many of his drawings were published in albums (Gott mit uns, Ecce Homo, Der Spiesser-Spiegel etc.), and he was subject to prosecutions for insulting the army and blasphemy. Visited the USA in 1932 to teach at the Art Students League, New York, and settled there 1933. In the latter part of his career he tried to establish himself as a pure painter of landscapes and still life, but also painted many compositions of an apocalyptic and deeply pessimistic kind. His role in the Berlin Dada movement affected political outlooks and artistic developments not only in Germany, but also in Russia, the Balkan nations, and parts of France. Grosz's penetrating, darkly humorous style of drawing and his use of satire as a weapon left a deep impression on the work of his contemporaries and the artists of the next generation. Some of his works from the early 1940s, particularly during World War II, do present an allegorical and dramatic representation of Grosz's moral perspective regarding war. Additionally, some of his last pieces from 1958 were photomontages and hearken back to his earlier Dadaist aesthetic and message, passing judgment upon consumerism and suggesting that his absorption with American culture had ended in disappointment. In 1959, Grosz sold his house and moved back to Berlin. He died shortly after his return, after a fall down the stairs.

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SKU
M-113113
Artist
Georges Grosz
Typology
Original Prints
Technique
Lithograph, Offset
Editor
Der Malik-Verlag Berlin
Period
1920s
Conditions
Good (minor cosmetic wear)
Dimensions (cm)
35.5 x 0.1 x 25.5
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