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At the Seaside 1928 20th Century 23 3/4 in. x 18 1/4 in. (60.33 cm x 46.36 cm) George Grosz (Berlin, Germany, 1893 - 1959) Object Type: Drawing Medium and Support: pencil on paper Credit Line: Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Purchase. 1984.033.001 Accession Number: 1984.033.001 Comments: This drawing depicts a uniformed, elderly, Nazi volunteer, with cane and swastika flag, on duty at the seaside, surveying vacationers, sunbathers, cabanas, boats and a distant lighthouse. From his girth, beard and cane, we deduce that the official is not a storm trooper, but the representative of the Nazi Party's effort to restrict freedom by constant surveillance, which Grosz had opposed from the outset.  As satirical as this drawing is of the self-important officer and his unworthy task, it offers a less biting satire than had been Grosz's practice five years earlier, or three years later after the burning of the Reichstag, when his eye for detail was more intensely vitriolic.  In a letter Grosz wrote while vacationing on the Baltic shore, he described at length the German nationalists who carried their politics even into the building of sand castles at the shoreline.

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