BR62.25: Terror in the Streets
DrawingsA group of figures drawn in quick slashing ink lines on a white page is seen clashing on a city street. At top right, a figure emerges from behind the group, his arm raised and pointing a pistol downward at a figure falling toward him. Below the gunman, a swirl of intersecting clashing figures, similarly drawn in spare black lines, tumbles toward us in the street. A figure can be seen observing from a window of a building in the foreground at left. A row of overlapping buildings in the background juts upward to the right under gathering clouds.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR62.25
- People
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George Grosz, American (Berlin, Germany 1893 - 1959 Berlin, Germany)
- Title
- Terror in the Streets
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1916
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/222888
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 41.3 x 29.3 cm (16 1/4 x 11 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in brown ink at l.r.: GROSZ
- inscription: l.r., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1916 312B
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Alfred Flechtheim]; to [Mayor Gallery, London Dec. 12, 1933] ; to [Leicester Gallery, March 5 1936]. Sold to Erich Cohn, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Erich Cohn
- Copyright
- © Estate of George Grosz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1962
- Object Number
- BR62.25
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- George Grosz 1893-1959, Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, 10/07/1962 - 12/30/1962
- German Art of the Twenties, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/26/1981 - 04/11/1981
- 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/07/1981 - 11/11/1981
- Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983
- 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/06/2015 - 05/06/2015
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