- Venue
- Highgate Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, October 11, 2014
- Ends
- Sunday, November 9, 2014
- Address
- 11 South Grove, London N6 6BS
- Location
- London
The title of this exhibition comes from the German title of Grosz’s autobiography, Ein Kleines Ja und Ein Grosses Nein – ‘A small yes and a big no’, itself a pun on his own name. Born Georg Groß in 1893, he later changed his name to George Grosz (in the same way his collaborator, the photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld became John Heartfield. He was equally disillusioned with Germany and both fascinated with the USA).
This Hayward touring exhibition is curated by film maker, curator and writer Lutz Becker who, with Helen Luckett, wrote the accompanying book of the same title.
The prints on show, all controversial at the time and subject to legal prosecutions, are taken from two sources: a facsimile edition of the Ecce Homo printing plates and drawings (later publicly burnt by the Nazis in 1933) and from the original Hintergrund (Background) portfolio of 1928.
Tuesday-Friday 13:00-17:00
Saturday 11:00-16:00
Sunday 11:00-17:00
Closed Monday
Admission free
Tube: Archway or Highgate
Buses 143, 210, 271 from Archway tube to Highgate Village
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