Creator Biography
George Grosz, German, 1893–1959 (artist).
Allison & Busby, English, founded London, 1967 (publisher), distributed in the USA by Schocken Books.
Frank Whitford, English, 1941–2014 (writer of introduction and notes).
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Creation Date
1984 (reprint), 1923 (original)
Geography
Germany, England
Culture
German, English
Medium
Bound book with drawings printed on paper
Dimensions
8 1/4 × 7 × 1/4 in. (21 × 7.7 × 0.6 cm)
Credit Line
Purchase by the Department of Art History, 2025
Accession Number
2026. 4
Description
This is a 1984, English-language translation of George Grosz’s Abrechnung Folgt (The Day of Reckoning). The publication date of the original edition is listed as 1925 on the copyright, which appears to be a misprint. A 1923 edition in the original German can be found here (2026.3).
This edition includes an introduction written by Frank Whitford (1941–2014), a British art historian, art critic, and newspaper cartoonist.
With this book is a clipping of Otto Dix’s 1923 drawing “Prostitute and War Wounded” published in a review of the exhibition Glitter and Doom: German portraits from the 1920s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Rabb, Theodore K. “A jaundiced gaze.” The Times Literary Supplement, February 2, 2007.
Keywords
Department of Art History Collection, European, German, After 1800, Expressionism, Dada, World War I, Book