Hunger / George Grosz
About this Item
Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1957/1.105
- Title
- Hunger
- Artist
- George Grosz
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- 1893-1959
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1924
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Germany (nation)
- Berlin (state)
- Berlin (city)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Germany (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Berlin (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Berlin (city)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- New Objectivity
- Inscription
- Signed in pencil, lower right corner: Grosz On stone, lower right corner: GROSZ Artist's name inscribed at lower left corner on stone: GEORGE GROSZ In pencil at lower left: Hunger
- Dimensions
- 49.6 cm x 33.2 cm (19 1/2 in. x 13 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- portrait
- Physical Description
- This sparely executed lithograph depicts, from left to right, a young boy, an aged man in a hat, and an aged woman in a shawl looking at the food on display in a shop window, bananas, cheese, sausage, and wine, among other items.
- Subject Matter
- In the years following World War I in Germany, many poorer and middle income people, who had already suffered deprivation during the war, struggled for basic subsistence in a time of deep economic crisis, with runaway inflation and growing class differences. The more wealthy managed to stay well off, and this piece highlights both the deprivation of the poor and the highly visible socio-economic inequality that meant that others had plenty.
- Primary Keywords
- boys
- expressionism
- food
- groceries
- grocery stores
- men
- standing
- store
- transfer lithography
- window
- windows
- women
- Secondary Keywords
- architectural elements
- architecture
- buildings and the land
- commercial buildings
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- figures
- image-making processes and techniques
- lithography
- materials
- materials by function
- mercantile buildings
- modern and contemporary art
- movement
- openings (architectural elements)
- openings and opening components
- openings by form
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by gender
- 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
- stores
- stores by commodity sold
- windows and window components
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 981 x 1455
- File Size
- 183 KB
- Record
- 1957/1.105
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1957-sl-1.105/1957_1.105.jpg
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"Hunger; George Grosz." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1957-sl-1.105/1957_1.105.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
