Hugo Gellert

The Working Day: Struggle for a Normal Working Day Laws to Enforce the Extension of the Working Day, Passed from the Middle of the Fourteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century

1933

A caricature of a rotund man in a top hat and coat with a cane on a book page.

Not on view

Date
1933

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph and letterpress

Dimensions
Sheet (folded): 22 1/2 × 15 1/8 in. (57.2 × 38.4 cm) Sheet (unfolded): 22 1/2 × 30 1/4 in. (57.2 × 76.8 cm) Image: 22 1/2 × 15 1/8 in. (57.2 × 38.4 cm)

Accession number
2016.115.36

Edition
19/133

Publication
Printed by Atelier Desjobert; published by Hugo Gellert

Credit line
Gift of Fern and Hersh Cohen

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Hugo Gellert, courtesy Mary Ryan Gallery, New York

API
artworks/50231

Part of a series:
Karl Marx Capital in Pictures
62 works

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Open book showing a page of text beside a detailed drawing of stacked coins and coin tubes.

A strong hand clenches three wheat stalks held upright beside a page of text.

A drawn hand grips gears, keys, and wheat before a clock face showing numbers around.

A book illustration shows a muscular man standing behind a woman and cupping her breasts.

A drawing of a jacket and can both showing clenched fists emerging from their openings.

A hand grips a clock hand inside a circular clock face with numbered hours.

A small tractor-like machine is driving into large flowing folds of fabric on the right page.

Book page titled 'Cooperation' shows men straining together to pull a rope beside a column of text.

Open book showing text on left and a black-and-white illustration of a water wheel on right.

Hugo Gellert
87 works in the collection, 3 exhibitions

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Hugo Gellert

The Working Day: Struggle for a Normal Working Day Laws to Enforce the Extension of the Working Day, Passed from the Middle of the Fourteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century

1933

Hugo Gellert 87 works in the collection, 3 exhibitions

Hugo Gellert
87 works in the collection, 3 exhibitions