Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten") / George Grosz
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1948/1.22
- Title
- Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten")
- Artist
- George Grosz
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- 1893-1959
- Medium and Support
- photolithograph on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1920
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Germany (nation)
- Berlin (state)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Germany (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Berlin (state)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jean Paul Slusser
- Style/Group/Movement
- New Objectivity
- Inscription
- Signed: Grosz (in German script)
- Dimensions
- 35.6 cm x 44.5 cm (14 in. x 17 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- black and white print
- Physical Description
- A group of laborers, wearing hats and jackets, walks from viewer's right to left along a street littered with garbage. The two in the front carry shovels. In the background is an industrial landscape, dirty and in disrepair.
- Subject Matter
- One of George Grosz's many works from the period after the First World War that explore the hardship of the poor and the working class in Germany's economic crisis, against a backdrop of a decaying industrial landscape.
- Primary Keywords
- berlin (state)
- cityscapes
- expressionism
- factories
- hats
- men
- transfer lithography
- walking
- workers
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- clothing
- descriptors
- europe (continent)
- figures
- geographic and political locations
- germany (nation)
- image-making processes and techniques
- industrial buildings
- industrial structures
- lithography
- modern and contemporary art
- movement
- objects
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by gender
- people by occupation
- planographic printing processes
- printing and printing processes and techniques
- printing processes
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1363 x 973
- File Size
- 127 KB
- Record
- 1948/1.22
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1948-sl-1.22/1948_1.22.jpg
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"Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten"); George Grosz." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1948-sl-1.22/1948_1.22.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2024.
