Creator Biography
George Grosz, German, 1893–1959 (artist)
Malik-Verlag, German, active Berlin, 1916–1947 (publisher)
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Creation Date
1930
Geography
Germany
Culture
German
Medium
Bound book with drawings printed on paper
Dimensions
11 1/16 × 8 1/16 × 3/4 in. (28.1 × 20.5 × 1.8 cm)
Credit Line
Purchase by the Department of Art History, 2025
Accession Number
2026.2
Description
This is a bound portfolio of 60 political cartoons. It was pubslihed by Malik-Verlag, a publishing house based in Berlin and founded by Wieland Herzflede, John Heartfield, and George Grosz. Malk-Verlag focused on left-wing political art and literature. A digitized version of this portfolio can be found here.
This portfolio is a sequel to Grosz’s Das Desicht Der Herrschenden Klasse (The Face of the Ruling Class), a collection of 57 political cartoons published by Malik-Verlag in 1921. A digitized version of the first installment of this series can be found here.
Keywords
Department of Art History Collection, European, German, After 1800, Expressionism, Dada, World War I, Book