39. Georg Schrimpf
(1889-1938)
Mädchen mit Tauben

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Schrimpf, Mädchen mit Tauben

Mädchen mit Tauben

Woodcut, ca. 1917, Hofmann/Prager 1917/7, 180 x 130 mm. Fine, even impression, as published in Das Kunstblatt I, No. 2 in 1917, on wove paper with full margins. Schrimpf was a member of the German artistic movement later called the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), an offshoot of, and in many ways a response to, Expressionism, and whose major figures included Beckmann, Grosz and Dix. Though producing images of immense diversity, its overall characteristics were realistic depiction, unpretentious subjects, a certain static quality and a socialistic viewpoint. Schrimpf’s work, along with that of many others, was declared “degenerate” by the Nazi party in 1933 and banned, hardly conceivable when one looks at this innocent image.