The Neighbor's Daughter or Spring Fever (Nachbars Lenchen oder Frühlings Erwachen)

1919

George Grosz

Associated Names
George Grosz

Artist, American, born Germany, 1893 - 1959

There is an illustration featuring a nude woman standing upright. She is shown facing forward with her arms at her sides. Her facial features are simply drawn, with a slightly rounded face, small eyes, and a serene expression. She has short hair styled with a bow on the side of her head. The woman is adorned with a necklace that has a cross pendant and a bracelet on her right wrist. In the upper right corner, there is a whimsical figure resembling a cherub with small wings, wearing a suit and holding a bow and arrow. The background features a single flower, possibly a tulip, growing from the ground near her left foot. The backdrop is a plain, light-colored surface.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 40.01 × 22.07 cm (15 3/4 × 8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1951.10.304

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Duckers 1979, no. E 51

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Claude Schaefer [1913-2010], Montevideo, Uruguay; sold 1950 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; [1] gift 1950/1951 to the National Gallery of Art.

[1] In Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 56-57, Rosenwald described being approached by a young man in South America who offered to sell his father’s collection of prints that he had brought with him from Germany. Rosenwald gives the year as 1951, but his appointment books confirm that it was actually 1950 - he left for Buenos Aires on 9 February 1950 and returned on 20 March 1950 (Library of Congress, Rosenwald Papers, Box 75). Rosenwald writes that he bought the entire collection of some 1100 prints and drawings, but as they had already been scheduled to be sent to Europe they came to the United States via Antwerp, arriving in the US in late April 1950. Rosenwald decided to keep about a quarter of the collection, destined for the National Gallery of Art, and donate the remainder to other institutions. The inventory log of Alverthorpe indicates that just over 300 works were accessioned there in May of 1950, inventory numbers 50.260-50.530, acquired from Claude Schaefer (Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, RG 45A1, Rosenwald Papers, Box 41).

Associated Names

Bibliography

1979

  • Duckers, Alexander. George Grosz: Das druckgraphische Werk. Frankfurt am Main: Propylaen Verlag, 1979, no. E 51.

Markings

stamped verso in black ink: COMISION NACIONAL DE MUSEOS / Y MONUMENTOS HISTORICOS / JOSE LUIS BUSANICHE / SECRETARIO GENERALE

Wikidata ID

Q65225239

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