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Mar 8, 2024 · George Grosz was a German artist whose caricatures and paintings provided some of the most vitriolic social criticism of his time. After studying art in Dresden and Berlin from 1909 to 1912, Grosz sold caricatures to magazines and spent time in Paris during 1913.
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.
Menacing street scenes, rowdy cabarets, corrupt politicians, wounded soldiers, greedy war profiteers, and other symbols of Berlin’s interwar decline all met with the artist’s relentless gaze, which exposed the core social issues that eventually led to Germany’s extreme nationalist politics.
May 11, 2022 · Wed 11 May 2022 09.21 EDT. Filled with lustful murderers, dishevelled streetwalkers and hollow-eyed wartime amputees, George Grosz’s jagged sketches of Berlin street life during the Weimar...
George Grosz. Painter, draftsman, printmaker known for pointed political satire and social criticism. Early work, from about 1914 to 1917, shows influence of Expressionism and Futurism, as well as caricature. Volunteered for war in 1914; discharged in 1915 after a sinus operation.
May 20, 2022 · Rendered in strong lines and colors, these are the subjects of George Grosz, one of the best-known artists of Weimar-era Germany. Born in Berlin in 1893, Grosz often left his birth city —...
Metropolis - Grosz, George. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. The transformation of the city into a vast metropolis was one of the subjects that most fascinated early twentieth-century painters, and Grosz was no exception.
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