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A line drawing of a group of men smoking and drinking

In the lower left foreground, a man in a suit, holding a cigarette sits at a table with a cigarette case, a newspaper and a drink in a glass mug in front of him. The man casts a sidelong glance at the figures behind him at another table. The figure behind him at middle right stares toward us through oval spectacles. In the background, two more men sit at another table smoking cigars. A man in a suit holding a cane under his arm, casts a look backward at them as he walks out of the scene to the left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR34.195
People
George Grosz, American (Berlin, Germany 1893 - 1959 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Café
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1919
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225885

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on tan wove paper
Dimensions
35.8 x 29.6 cm (14 1/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink at u.r.: GROSZ

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase
Copyright
© Estate of George Grosz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
BR34.195
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
pen and ink

Publication History

  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 124, repr.
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 385, p. 321, repr.
  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 57, ill.
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 153

Exhibition History

  • George Grosz 1893-1959, Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, 10/07/1962 - 12/30/1962
  • Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/15/1980 - 09/01/1980; Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
  • 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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