Selections From the Permanent Collection
Exhibition

Selections From the Permanent Collection

Jul 16 — Oct 5, 2009

Works on view ranged from George Grosz’s drawings of corrupt plutocrats to Otto Dix’s etchings of impoverished beggars.

George Grosz
(1893-1959)
Panorama (Down with Liebknecht),
1919
Pen and ink and watercolor on paper
Private Collection
© Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA
at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

George Grosz, Panorama (Down with Liebknecht) (1919), Pen and ink and watercolor on paper
George Grosz, Panorama (Down with Liebknecht) (1919), Pen and ink and watercolor on paper

George Grosz
(1893-1959)
Panorama (Down with Liebknecht),
1919
Pen and ink and watercolor on paper
Private Collection
© Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA
at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

“Selections from the Permanent Collection” features art that has a particular relevance to present-day social and economic conditions. Works on view range from George Grosz’s drawings of corrupt plutocrats to Otto Dix’s etchings of impoverished beggars, disenfranchised citizens, and crippled war veterans.

Other material on view will be paintings by Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (including his masterpiece Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I surrounded by six of the artist’s major works) and Egon Schiele, by German artists Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and decorative arts by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Marianne Brandt, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The show will be on view concurrently with the exhibition “Focus: Oskar Kokoschka.”