The Good Son
- Date
- 1932
- Material
- Watercolor
- made in
- Berlin, Berlin state, Germany, Europe
- Classification
- Drawings & watercolors
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 19 1/4 × 23 7/8 in. (48.9 × 60.6 cm)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Henry V. Putzel
- Rights
- © Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by ARS, New York, NY
- Object Number
- 24:1970
NOTES
Notice the delicate wrinkles in these figures’ faces and the detail of their clothing, executed in the unforgiving medium of watercolor. George Grosz honed his skillful control of line in satirical depictions of German society, like this elderly son who dutifully escorts his mother and another elderly relative on a walk through a Berlin park. For Grosz, their fussy old-fashioned hats and stiff movements symbolized the conservative values of the German middle classes.
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