George grosz the funeral

George grosz cartoons
George grosz dada
George grosz assassination

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George Grosz 1893-1959

George Grosz was born in Berlin, Germany on 26 July 1893 and trained at the Dresden Academy and later at the school of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. He was also greatly influenced by graphic artists including William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier and by popular art forms including graffiti. From 1916 he began to paint in oils and his lithographs featured regularly in books and magazines. He served twice during the First World War (the first time as a volunteer) and was twice discharged for medical reasons. This experience sharpened his political conscience resulting in a series of bitingly satirical works that were particularly critical of militarism, corruption and hypocrisy. A prominent member of the Dada movement, he also became the leading exponent of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement and established an international reputation that led to an invitation to teach in New York. He fled Germany in 1933, only days before Hitler’s accession to power in order to escape prosecution. In 1937 Grosz’s work was include

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George Grosz

German artist (1893–1959)

George Grosz
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