Nach getaner Arbeit (The End of a Perfect Day)

George Grosz, artist

1893–1959

Associated American Artists, publisher

active 1934–2000

Nach getaner Arbeit (The End of a Perfect Day), 1939

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: drypoint; wove paper

Dimensions:
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 252 x 327 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 313 x 394 mm
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 9 15/16 x 12 7/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 12 5/16 x 15 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of Dr. Franklin D. Murphy

Accession number: 1957.0014

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard
The events of the first World War made a powerful impression on all who experienced it. One of the artistic reactions to the war was the founding of the dada movement in neutral Switzerland. Early dada in Zurich, Switzerland, is usually identified as a revolutionary and nihilistic movement, prior to the group's more explosive political phase in Berlin, Germany. Grosz was an important member of the Berlin dada movement and was active in communist and anarchist circles.
In the two prints exhibited here, both done during the war and prior to the advent of dada, Grosz displays his formidable ability to satirize the military and to instill in us the horrors of war.