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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR64.71
People
George Grosz, American (Berlin, Germany 1893 - 1959 Berlin, Germany)
Title
H. M. (President Friedrich Ebert)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: S. M. (Reichspräsident Friedrich Ebert)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1923
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310542

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 65.2 x 50.9 cm (25 11/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: GROSZ
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: No. 17 Präsident
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, handwritten, German: EIN SOHN DES VOLKES 1924
  • inscription: on verso at l.c., graphite, handwritten: Cohn N.Y.
  • inscription: on verso at l.l., graphite, handwritten: G.16 371 S.M.

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
1964
Object Number
BR64.71
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 125, repr.
  • 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. 152

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • 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
  • German Realist Drawings of the 1920s, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 05/15/1986 - 07/06/1986; Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/06/1986 - 09/28/1986; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 10/25/1986 - 12/28/1986
  • George Grosz, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 03/20/1997 - 06/08/1997
  • George Grosz. Berlin - New York, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 04/08/2000 - 05/21/2000; Itami City Museum of Art, Itami, 06/10/2000 - 07/30/2000; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, 08/06/2000 - 09/24/2000

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