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George Grosz

George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic before he emigrated to the United States in 1933.

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George Grosz' Interregnum
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George Grosz - Works - Quotes
... —Trewin Copplestone In Grosz's Germany, everything and everybody is for sale ... —Grosz My Drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, I drew drunkards puking men men with clenched fists cursing at the moon ... —Grosz In 2003 the Grosz family initiated a legal battle against MoMa in NYC asking that three paintings be returned ...
Weimar Culture - The Arts - Fine Arts
... Arp, John Heartfield, Wieland Hertzfelde, Johannes Baader, Raoul Hausmann, George Grosz and Hannah Höch ... Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Conrad Felixmüller, Christian Schad, and Rudolf Schlichter, who all "worked in different styles, but ... Otto Dix and George Grosz referred to their own movement as Verism, a reference to the Roman classical Verism approach called verus, meaning "truth", warts and all ...

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    “The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the “genius” of the personage, the greater the profit.”
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