Grosz, GeorgeGerman, 1893–1959Seated Nude
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Where is “Seated Nude” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Chicago, United States
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- 1992.232
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In the life of Grosz, George
The whole life28 July 1928 – 12 August 1928
Took part in: 1928 Summer Olympics
10 December 1928
Convicted of blasphemy: “Christ in a gas mask”
Grosz and his publisher Wieland Herzfelde are prosecuted and fined on charges of blasphemy and sacrilege for two anticlerical drawings in the portfolio Hintergrund (Background): one shows prisoners assaulted by a minister who vomits grenades and weapons onto them, the other a crucified Christ in a World War I gas mask and combat boots.
1928–1933 · Residence
Wilmersdorf
1929
Acquitted by the Reichsgericht in Berlin
After two appeals Grosz and his publisher are finally acquitted by the Reichsgericht in Berlin; the judge decides that it was not an offence to religion but an attack on militarism.
28 February 1930
Son born: Marty Grosz
June 1932
An invitation to teach in New York
Bitterly anti-Nazi, Grosz accepts an invitation to teach the summer semester at the Art Students League of New York; in October 1932 he returns to Germany.
![The End of the Road (Out of Fear of Starvation) [Das Ende des Weges (Aus Nahrungssorgen)], George Grosz, 1913](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjEyMTkwNyJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=864379f3ce59af36)
