Der Held (The Hero), from the portfolio The Contemporary Print Group: American Scene No. 1: A Comment Upon American Life by America's Leading Artists

George Grosz, German, 1893 - 1959

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1933

Lithograph on wove [BFK RIVES FRANCE] paper

66 of planned 300

Image: 12 1/2 × 9 in. (31.8 × 22.8 cm)

Overall: 11 7/16 in. (29 cm)

Sheet: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Transferred from the Dartmouth College Library

2007.57.4

Printer

George C. Miller

Publisher

Contemporary Print Group, New York

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in pencil, lower right margin: GROSZ; stamped on reverse, lower left: Contemporary Print Group NY / The American Scene, no. 1 / 772.73fc767a ser-1; stamped on reverse, lower right: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / LIBRARY Wartermark: FRANCE

Course History

ARTH 40.04/LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad, Mary Coffey, Winter 2022

GERM 3.01, Introdoctory German (cont.), Heidi Denzel, Fall 2022

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 57, Perspectives on War, Eleanor Stoltzfus, Class of 2010, Class of 1954 Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 5-July 18, 2010.

Provenance

Purchased by the Dartmouth College Library, Dartmouth College, November 1934; transferred to present collection, 2007.

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