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Georg Scholz (German, 1890–1945) created some of the most biting, satirical images of the Weimar period. Indeed, before his work was shown in Gustav Hartlaub’s landmark Neue Sachlichkeit exhibition of 1925 cementing his association with that movement, two of his scathing works were exhibited at the Berlin Dadaist’s Erste Internationale Dada-Messe of 1920: Hindenburgsülze. Ein duftendes Geburtstagsgeschenk für den Feldmarschall Hindenburg (Hindenburg-Aspic. A Fragrant Birthday Present for the Field Marshal Hindenburg), now lost, and Industriebauern (Industrial Peasants), an oil painting with collage now at the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal (G 1336). The prints and drawings shown here date from this early period (1920–22). The drawing above was acquired by the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim in 1929, but was confiscated in 1937. The image, reversed, also exists as a lithograph. The vertical orientation of the Von der Heydt’s Industriebauern was adapted into the horizontal format of the (hand-colored) lithograph below. The catalogue numbers in the captions refer to Georg Scholz: Das druckgrafische Werk (Karlsruhe: Künstlerhaus-Galerie, Galerie des Bezirksverbandes Bilden der Künstler, 1982).
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