George grosz prints
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GEORGE GROSZ
GEORGE GROSZ - Biography
He was born on 26 July 1893 in Berlin, the first meeting of the schoolboy Georg Grosz with the paintings takes place at the official hussar circle of the Blucher regiment of Stolp, managed by his mother. The uniforms, the dramatic representations of historical battles stimulate the boy 's imagination to drawing. After drawing experiences in refined ways of popular figurative elements 1913/14, it is the war events of the 1st World War that forged the expressiveness of Grosz, also if his stay in the war is short and ends in May 1915, when he is discharged due to illness. The short war period is sufficient, however, to make him grasp the horror of the carnage that is taking place on the battlefields across Europe, millions of proletarians inflating the pockets of landowners, grain suppliers and large arms producers, such as Krupp in Germany, and the Lambs in Italy, die in silence in the putrid mud of the trenches, or among the disjointed and bleeding bodies of the companions who had just fallen in an assault. Grosz adheres to the Dadaist
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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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George Grosz was born Georg Ehrenfried Gross in Berlin on July 26, 1893. From 1909 to 1911, he trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Art, and attended the Berlin College of Arts and Crafts intermittently until 1917, while taking classes at the Académie Colarossi in Paris in 1913. He enlisted and served in the German Army from 1914 to 1915 and again for a short period in 1917. His drawings, caricatures, and paintings produced during World War I criticized social corruption in Germany at the time, as well as capitalism, prostitution, the Prussian military class, and the German middle class. Many of these drawings were published in satirical journals or in portfolios for which the artist was often prosecuted.
Grosz held his first solo exhibition in 1920 at the Neue Kunst/Hans Goltz gallery in Munich and took part in the First International Dada Exhibition in Berlin. His contributions to the Dada movement were significant; along with John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann, Grosz is considered the inventor of the photomontage technique. During the 1920s he joined the Nove
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