Karl Hubbuch

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.