A staunch anti-militarist and social satirist, George Grosz immigrated to New York just as Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. He taught at the Art Students League and Columbia University, and his work influenced many American social realists, including Paul Cadmus and Jacob Lawrence. This drawing—executed in New York the same year Grosz was included in the Nazis’ Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich—depicts the horrors of World War I, prefiguring the second war on the horizon.