Georg Scholz
Zeitungsträger
1921/1923
Lithograph on smooth paper with embossed stamp "EUPHORION" (cropped) 20 x 22 cm (30.9 x 40.8 cm) Framed. Signed. One of 125 proofs. Published in "Die Schaffenden", vol. IV, 4th portfolio ("Neue Veristen und Konstruktivisten"), Euphorion Verlag, Berlin 1923, sheet 9. - Minimally browned; the wide margins slightly creased.
In its motif the lithograph follows two watercolours painted in 1921 with the title "Arbeit schändet" (work defiles), depicted in reverse. With the editions in "Die Schaffenden" and the reproduction in the magazine "Der Gegner" (edited by Wieland Herzfelde) in 1922/1923, it is considered to be the best-known and "most circulated graphic print by Scholz”. (Georg Scholz 1982, op. cit., p. 37)
Catalogue Raisonné
Söhn HDO vol. VII, 72716-9
Literature
Freya Mülhaupt, Verelendung, Revolution und Kunst, in: Wem gehört die Welt- Kunst und Gesellschaft in der Weimarer Republik, exhib. cat. Berlin 1977, p.162 ff.; Künstlerhaus-Galerie, Galerie des Bezirksverbandes Bildender Künstler (ed.), Georg Scholz. Das druckgraphische Werk, Karlsruhe 1982, p. 36 f., no. 52 with full-page illus. p. 97; Richard Leibinger/Hans-Dieter Mück (ed.), Georg Scholz 1890-1945. Malerei, Zeichnung, Druckgraphik, Waldkirch 1990, p. 62 with full-page illus.
Exhibitions
Berlin 1977 (Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Staatl. Kunsthalle Berlin), Wem gehört die Welt - Kunst und Gesellschaft in der Weimarer Republik, without cat. no., p. 164 with illus. 8