Unterm Hakenkreuz: Gestapo im Haus (Under the Swastika: Gestapo in the House)

1934

Lea Grundig

Associated Names
Lea Grundig

Artist, German, 1906 - 1977

The image shows the upper bodies of three people in a dimly lit corridor with two visible doors. The first person is a child peeking around the edge of an open door, with a round face, wide eyes, and short, light-colored hair. Behind them, an elderly person with a wrinkled face and thin hair peers out from the darkness. Across the corridor, a third person stands in another doorway, holding a door with a similar stance. This person has a longer, more angular face and longer hair. The first person appears to have bare arms, and the second person might be wearing a light-colored garment visible on one arm. There are no visible objects, jewelry, or clear clothing details, and the background is shadowy and textured.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on heavy wove cream paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 24.5 × 19.7 cm (9 5/8 × 7 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 61.5 × 47.9 cm (24 3/16 × 18 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.264

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ladengalerie 1973, no. 34, State only

  • Series Title

    Unterm Hakenkreuz (Plate 10)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie St. Etienne, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 7, 2005; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1973

  • Lea Grundig, Werkverzeichnis der Radierungen. Berlin: Ladengalerie, 1973: no. 34, only

Inscriptions

signed, dated and titled below image, in graphite: Unterm Hakenkreuz Lea Grundig 1934 / Gestapo im Haus; numbered below image, at left, in graphite, by later hand: 41/60

Wikidata ID

Q76556488