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“Es ist doch Eine jammerliche Rolle, der Hase sein zu mussen auf dieser Welt – Aber der gnadige Herr braucht Hasen”
Print

1922
39 x 31 1/2 in. (99.06 x 80.01 cm)

George Grosz (Berlin, Germany, 1893 - 1959, West Berlin, Germany) Primary

Object Type: Print
Medium and Support: Lithograph on wove paper
Credit Line: Gift of J. Michael Bewley
Accession Number: 2015.07.09

Exhibition


Rise Up! Social Justice in Art from the Collection of J. Michael Bewley, June 8, 2018 – September 30, 2018, San José Museum of Art.

SJMA Label Text


Rise Up! Social Justice in Art from the Collection of J. Michael Bewley (2018)

George Grosz is renowned for his caustic pen-and-ink caricatures critiquing the politics and culture of German society between the World Wars. Deeply affected by his experience as a soldier in WWI, Grosz became involved in leftist pacifist political activity. He submitted his satirical and critical drawings to periodicals that circulated among radical groups and the working class.

The title of this print comes from German playwright Friedrich Schiller’s first drama The Robbers (Die Raeuber) (1781) about a conflict between two aristocratic brothers. The play probes the psychology of power and exposes the economic inequities of German society. Grosz embraces Schiller’s view of class warfare between the hunter and the hunted.

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