Etching;
Signed lower right, numbered lower left: 51/100;
Plate size: 7.80 × 9.92 in inch Rental frame;
The 1922 drypoint etching *Milly in Berlin* (also known as *The Sweet Whip*) by German artist Karl Hubbuch is one of the most striking works of socially critical Verism within New Objectivity. The sheet is listed in the authoritative catalogue raisonné under the number Riester 56.
Its unidealized iconography depicts a naked woman marked by the hardships of life, set against an urban cityscape in which a scene of violence is subtly suggested in the background. Here, Hubbuch focuses on the precarious existence of a marginalized social group in the crisis-ridden metropolis of Berlin in the early 1920s. The dramatic composition recalls a cinematic still, drawing the viewer psychologically into the unfolding scene.
As in his well-known work *The Poison Bottle*, the artist again functions as an analytical chronicler of a moral and social condition. In addition to the extremely rare proof impressions from 1922, the Karl Hubbuch Foundation issued a later edition of 100 numbered copies in 1967. Today, the print is regarded as a key work for understanding the profound social fractures of the Weimar Republic.
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