George Grosz
George Grosz 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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Berlin
- Educated at
- Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
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Trending topics shown first"I am lonely without measure; that is to say, I am alone with my doubles, phantasms in whom I realize specific dreams, ideas, inclinations, and so on. I rip three other people out of my inner life, giv…"
"A great deal that had become frozen within me in Germany melted here in America and I rediscovered my old yearning for painting. I carefully and deliberately destroyed a part of my past."
"A composition should be simple and clear. That is why the drawings of children and primitives are so strong."
"Art today is an absolutely secondary matter. Anyone who is able to look further than the walls of his own studio can see this.. .All the same, art is a business that demands a very clear decision from…"
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1893
Born
Birth1959
Died
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