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Holocaust
Holocaust
Object number1981.20

Holocaust

Datec. 1944-1949
Artist (German, 1893-1959)
CultureGerman, American
MediumWatercolor
DimensionsImage: 22 1/8 x 16 in. (56.2 x 40.6 cm)
Sheet: 25 3/8 x 18 7/8 in. (64.5 x 47.9 cm)
Matted: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm)
Credit LineGift of Laurence Schmeckebier in memory of Alexandra Kluge Schmeckebier, class of 1930
On View
Not on view
Period20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, signed lower right in blue watercolor: gROSZ
BibliographyThe Artist’s Perception, 1948/1984: Exhibition 23 March-6 May 1984: 1948, Between Art and Political Action : 1984, Progress and Access. New York: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1984, p. 5; The Heckscher Museum of Art and Das kleine Grosz Museum. George Grosz -- The Stick Men, Cologne, DE: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig, 2023, p. 72ProvenanceGiven by the artist to Laurence Schmeckebier, in exchange, 1952
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryThe Artist’s Perception 1948/1984: Between Art and Political Action, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, March 13 - May 6, 1984;

The Lines of Battle: Images of War From the Fifteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 26 - December 14, 1997;

Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, May 8- July 26, 2009;

George Grosz: The Stick Men, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, May 11 - September 1, 2024
DescriptionAn abstracted depiction of figures in the foreground near a brick wall and behind a ruined structure, looking off into the distance at the background imagery. Violent imagery of a figure in the foreground likely bleeding from their lower half and a scene of hanged bodies in the upper right of the background. Also in the background are ruins of a building in blue and a multicolored landscape. The work has a chaotic mix of colors such as blue, red, and yellow and is rendered with various brushstroke thickness, lines, and spatters.

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