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'''''The Funeral''''' (often '''''The Funeral (Dedicated to Oskar Panizza)''''') is a painting by the German [[Expressionism|Expressionist]] artist [[George Grosz]], completed between 1917 and 1918. The work combines elements of [[Futurism]] and [[Cubism]]<ref name="W42">Wolf & Grosenick, 42</ref> to show a [[funeral procession]] in a modern urban city, as an [[hell|infernal]] abyss populated by twisted and grotesque attendants.<ref name="FW">Friedrich-Wilhelms, Rheinische. "[http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic99/less3/Sources/HTML-Pages/HTML-Pages/georg30.html Widmung an Oskar Panizza (1917/18)]". Universität Bonn. Retrieved on 21 May 2009.</ref> The painting is dedicated to the German psychiatrist and avant-garde writer [[Oskar Panizza]] (1853-1921), noted for his play ''[[Liebeskonzil]]'', which draws on the first historically documented outbreak of [[syphilis]] and depicts [[God the Father]] as a senile old man. Although Panizza's works, in which he rejected all militarism and religious authority, were deemed [[Blasphemy|blasphemous]] by both the Church and the government of [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Emperor Wilhelm II]],. theyThey were later admired by Grosz and other idealists of histhe dada generation.<ref name="W42" />