Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Film Star Spends Two Minutes in her Parents' Garden. Verso: Sketch of male nudes, sitting and standing, crossed out;

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Karl Hubbuch
1891-1979

The Film Star Spends Two Minutes in her Parents' Garden. Verso: Sketch of male nudes, sitting and standing, crossed out;

ca. 1932
25 1/4 x 20 7/8 inches (64 x 53.1 cm)
Reed pen and India ink heightened with white on paper; verso: graphite and colored pencils.
2005.136

Bequest of Fred Ebb.

Notes
Hubbuch was an important figure in the New Objectivity movement of the 1920s. He was a prolific draftsman and printmaker whose meticulous drawings inspired by the modern city often included social or political satire. In the late 1920s, he published under the title "La France" a portfolio of forty drawings of satirical observation prompted by several trips to that country. A few years later, he planned a pendant publication dedicated to his native Germany. This drawing, which satirizes the contrast between the city (embodied by the movie star) and the country, belongs to a group of twelve produced for this uncompleted project. Later, when Hubbuch titled and dated these works on the verso, probably during the 1960s, he entitled the group "German Concerns" and dated the drawings to 1925/27, either erroneously or in reference to an earlier version of the project.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower center in black ink, "Hubbuch"; verso: Graphite studies of nude men; Inscribed at lower left, "Karl Hubbuch / Karlsruhe / "Die Filmdiva verbringt / 2 Minuten im Garten / ihres Elternhauses" / Rohrfeder / 1925-1927"; along right border, "No. 8; aus der Folge "Deutsche Belange"" (from the portfolio "German Concerns").
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings