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“I drew and painted in opposition and attempted in my work to show the world in all its ugliness, sickness and lies.”
—George Grosz"In his early studies and drawings of female nudes from the years 1912 to 1914, the artist was not only interested in sketching the female figures, accompanied sometimes by male figures too, in various poses, but he also executed highly erotic subjects like this very murder scene, expressing his liking for grotesque, combining reality, imagination and dreams. There were just a few limits imposed on the depiction of scenes of lust and murder, often done with a certain humor, where pleasure turns into aggression and eroticism is combined with brutality. In his art Grosz often went to the limits of what is possible in identifying with sex and violence, sparing the beholder no details of what is taking place."– Dr. Ralph Jentsch, Manager of George Grosz Estate and Author of Forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné
George Grosz, Metropolis (Grossstadt), 1917, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Image: Museum of Modern Art, New York / Scala, Florence, Artwork: © 2024 Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Ein Verbrechen (A Crime), drawn before the artist’s military service in 1917 and subsequent nervous breakdown, is a notable, early interpretation of the descent into moral and physical chaos that Grosz would continue to depict as a great affliction to Berlin in the late 1910s and early 1920s, often described in crime novels: sex and death, it seemed, were lurking around every corner. Some of Grosz’s most iconic images – darkly crowded and often red-tinged canvases in which the streets of Germany teem with beggars, prostitutes, and profiteers – serve to criticize Weimar-era politics, aesthetics, and values, offering what Grosz saw as the decay of German society. While his emblematic street scenes approach this madness as seen in the public spaces, Ein Verbrechen (A Crime) importantly takes us to an interior room, representing how this early culture of violence and vices manifested in the intimate spaces outside of immediate public view.
來源
藝術家收藏（柏林，約1913-14年）
喬治．葛羅茲遺產管理委員會（1959年）
私人收藏過往展覽
Peter Deitsch Fine Arts Inc., New York, George Grosz, 1893-1959: A Selection of Fifty Early Drawings from 1910 to 1920, February 5 - March 2, 1968
文學
Peter Deitsch Fine Arts Inc., George Grosz, 1893-1959: A Selection of Fifty Early Drawings from 1910 to 1920, 1968, no. 18 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
Dr. Ralph Jentsch has confirmed the authenticity of this work and will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of works on paper by George Grosz.
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《罪》
約1913-14年作
獨由棕褐色蘆葦筆、鋼筆和水墨繪畫 平鋪紙本
9 1/8 x 8 3/4 英吋（23.2 x 22.2 公分）
款識：簽名、標題、2 112 6（畫背）
鈴印：喬治．葛羅茲遺產管理委員會
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