Dr. Huelsenbeck Near the End
George Grosz
1920
- Medium
- Pen and brush and black ink on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 47.7 × 37.5 cm (18 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)inkpen and ink drawingsprints and drawingcolored inkblack inkcoating (material)paper (fiber product)
About
Dr. Huelsenbeck near the End is a study for George Grosz’s lithographic portfolio Ecce Homo, published in Berlin in 1922. Judged by some as obscene, Ecce Homo was censored by police officials. The title of this drawing derives from a novel—Dr. Billig near the End—written by the Dadaist Richard Huelsenbeck in 1921. The bald male figure in the foreground of this drawing represents the author Huelsenbeck.
