The Poet Max Hermann-Neisse is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1927 by German artist George Grosz.

Neisse is depicted seated in the left direction, in a flowery decorated chair, with his hands crossed.

In the left background is shown a table with a kind of still-life, presenting a bottle, a glass and an ashtray with a smoked cigarette.

He wears glasses and a dark suit, is depicted sympathetically but rigorously, not hiding his not-very-flattering features, which included a frail body, a hunchback and a large and totally bald head.

[1][2] There was a property dispute between the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which bought the painting in 1952, and the Estate of George Grosz, which claimed its ownership, because it had been allegedly illegally looted by the Nazi regime in 1933.