Tiraz Textile Fragment
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Object Label
By the time he immigrated to the United States in 1932, George Grosz had spent a decade painting shocking figure subjects that indicted the dissipated society and corrupt regime of Weimar Germany and led to his condemnation by Hitler’s Nazi government. Once in this country, Grosz freed himself to paint landscapes and took up watercolor. In that medium he began to experience the pure pleasure of painting with a liberated, almost calligraphic touch bearing no relation to the lurid tones and laboriously worked surfaces of his German oil paintings.
Caption
Tiraz Textile Fragment, 11th century. Linen, tapestry-woven decoration, 13 1/4 x 7in. (33.7 x 17.8cm) Frame: 2 x 23 1/16 x 17 in. (5.1 x 58.5 x 43.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.98. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.98_PS1.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Tiraz Textile Fragment
Date
11th century
Period
Fatimid Period
Medium
Linen, tapestry-woven decoration
Classification
Dimensions
13 1/4 x 7in. (33.7 x 17.8cm) Frame: 2 x 23 1/16 x 17 in. (5.1 x 58.5 x 43.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
Accession Number
86.227.98
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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