Art, literature & historyDr. Huelsenbeck Near the End
1920
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Pen and brush and black ink on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 47.7 × 37.5 cm (18 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1998.735
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Dr. Huelsenbeck Near the End — George Grosz. 1920.
Medium: Pen and brush and black ink on cream wove paper. Dimensions: 47.7 × 37.5 cm (18 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Dr. Huelsenbeck near the End is a study for George Grosz’s lithographic portfolio Ecce Homo , published in Berlin in 1922. Judged by some as obscene, Ecce Homo was censored by police officials. The title of this drawing derives from a novel— Dr. Billig near the End —written by the Dadaist Richard Huelsenbeck in 1921. The bald male figure in the foreground of this drawing represents the author Huelsenbeck.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.