George Grosz

"...I considered any art pointless if it did not put itself at the disposal of political struggle....my art was to be a gun and a sword."

George Grosz

George Grosz (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 group during the Weimar Republic before emigrating to the United States in 1933.

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Born, Georg Ehrenfried Groß, Grosz was a major figure in two very influential art movements of that post-World War I period: the Berlin-based Dada group, and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity). A leftist, pacifist, his art, like those of his associates, paralleled his social and political activism; his visual statements being profound criticisms of a decaying Germany with deep social ills.

In the 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition in Berlin, of the more than 200 George Grosz satirical drawings on view, many were seized and later destroyed by the hands of the Nazis,.

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