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George Grosz
German artist (1893–1959)
George Grosz | |
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George Grosz in 1921 | |
| Born | Georg Ehrenfried Groß (1893-07-26)July 26, 1893 Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | July 6, 1959(1959-07-06) (aged 65) West Berlin, West Germany |
| Nationality | German, American (since 1938) |
| Education | Dresden Academy |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
| Notable work | The Funeral (Dedicated to Oscar Panizza) |
| Movement | Dada, Expressionism, New Objectivity |
George Grosz (; German:[ɡʁoːs]ⓘ; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died shortly a
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George Grosz was an ideologically committed painter, an agitator who used art as a weapon in the convulsed Germany of the early twentieth century. He studied at the Akademie für Bildende Künste in Dresden between 1909 and 1911, at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin and, finally, at the Académie Colarossi in Paris in 1913. Grosz started out as a caricature artist with a socially critical style that became more mordant as a result of the traumatic experience of the First World War. In 1917 he and the brothers John Heartfield and Wieland Herzfelde established Malik, a publishing firm specialising in subversive books and reviews, where Grosz brought out numerous drawings and a few writings which occasionally led him to court. From 1917 to 1920, driven by his disillusionment with the society that surrounded him, he joined the Berlin Dadaist group and took part with Heartfield and Otto Dix in the Erste Internationale Dada-Messe of 1920. Shortly afterwards he became the foremost practitioner of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).
During the 1920s Grosz’s artistic style expressed
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George Grosz
German-American draughtsman and painter, born in Berlin. Studied drawing at the Dresden Academy 1909-11 and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin 1912-14; also for several months in 1913 at the Atelier Colarossi in Paris. Served in the army 1914-15 and again briefly in 1917, but spent the rest of the war in Berlin where he made violently anti-war drawings, and drawings and paintings attacking the social corruption of Germany (capitalists, prostitutes, the Prussian military caste, the middle class). Played a prominent role in the Berlin Dada movement 1917-20 and collaborated with John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann in the invention of photomontage. First one-man exhibition at the Galerie Hans Goltz, Neue Kunst in Munich 1920. Many of his drawings were published in albums (Gott mit uns, Ecce Homo, Der Spiesser-Spiegel etc.), and he was subject to prosecutions for insulting the army and blasphemy. Visited the USA in 1932 to teach at the Art Students League, New York, and settled there 1933. In the latter part of his career he tried to es
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