Grosz G. 1918. Pen and brush drawing. A. Conger Goodyear Fund, Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Source: Shikes, R. E., 1969, The Indignant Eye: The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso, Beacon Press, Boston).

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Grosz' sardonic sense of humour and disrespect for authority is evident in this famous cartoon. According to Shikes (pp 286-288), he made this cartoon after being reconscripted, after having earlier been discharged as unfit. After WWI Grosz joined the Dada art movement.