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2021
Grosz, George
1893 Berlin - 1959 ibid.
«Der muntere Kranke. Frederic und Catherine (the feisty patient. Frederic and Catherine)».
1932. Reed pen, pen and India ink as well as pencil on light, chamois wove paper. Unsigned. Badly legible inscribed by a different hand «Hemingway [...]» upper left. Verso dated by hand «ca 1930», numbered «LyNr 812» and inventory number of the estate «3 115 4». Verso dated by a different hand «30 5 (19)59» and inscribed «GG».
H 46,
As part of a literature and picture puzzle, the drawing «The feisty patient. Frederic and Catherine» appeared in 1932 in the «UHU», a magazine of the Ullstein publishing house in Berlin. Readers were asked to guess a romance novel based on an excerpt and an illustration by George Grosz. The literary model for the feisty patient is the novel «A Farewell to Arms» by Ernest Hemingway, translated into German in 1930, which is about the American Frederic, who fights on the Italian side in World War I and falls in love with a British nurse named Catherine. The experiences of the horrors of the war have pushed Grosz and Hemingway, who were enemies in the war, equally in an anti-militaristic direction. Later they were supposed to meet as friends in mutual admiration of their work.
Photo expert report: Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rome, 26.08.2020.
We would like to thank Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rome, for the scientific consultation, based on photos.
Provenance: studio of the artist, Berlin, 1932; estate of the artist, 1959; Galerie Ralph Jentsch, Munich; purchased at the Galerie Ralph Jentsch during the Art Cologne, Cologne, in 1994; since then med art-collection of the HUG-group,
Literature: UHU, Das neue Ullsteinmagazin, Ullstein Verlag Berlin, vol. 8, issue 8, May 1932, p. 21.
Catalogue raisonné: The work will be listed in the upcoming catalogue raisonné of works on paper by Ralph Jentsch.
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