Attack (Attentat)
George Grosz
1915
Medium
lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 19.05 × 24.45 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 24.13 × 32.23 cm (9 1/2 × 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the gift of Richard A. Simms and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2017.100.1
About the Artist
George Grosz
George Grosz (1893–1959) was a German-American artist whose savage satirical drawings and paintings became some of the most powerful visual critiques of militarism, capitalism, and social decay in twentieth-century art. Born Georg Ehrenfried Gross in Berlin, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Berlin School of Arts and Crafts before serving in World War I, an experience that rad...