1960.140 George Grosz, Self Portrait

This is one of the earliest of many probing self-portraits George Grosz made in the years after his arrival in the United States. During the same period, he also moved sharply away from his past identity as a political satirist and began instead to make allegories of war in response to the grim developments in Europe. One of these nightmarish allegorical landscapes appears on the easel behind him.

Describing his splintered personality to a journalist in 1943, Grosz said: "There is one person on top, one in the middle, another in the cellar, and a fourth is chained in a dark closet for which there is no key."

Heather MacDonald, DMA label copy, 2012.

Depicted location and place of origin: United States (nation): TGN: 7012149

Oil on canvas

From 1960: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, gift of A. Harris and Company in memory of Leon A. Harris, Sr. [1]

[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.

UMO: 13310072    The History and Culture of George Grosz's Dallas, Gallery talk by Carol Roark

UMO: 13310104   Reflections on George Grosz, Gallery talk with Marty Grosz, George Grosz's son

UMO: 13310145    Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas, Gallery talk by Alan Govenar

UMO: 13316195   Frontier Fantasies Meet Frontier Realities: George Grosz in Dallas in 1952, Late Night Lecture by Barbara McCloskey

UMO: 13316211   Politics as Art: Grosz's Influence on Political Cartooning

UMO: 13317549   Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas, Gallery talk by Dr. Heather MacDonald

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