Representative work by George Grosz
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Artist

George Grosz

1893–1959 · German-American

  • Dresden Academy of Fine Arts

George Grosz became one of Weimar Germany’s fiercest satirists, using drawing, watercolor and print to attack militarism, capitalism and bourgeois hypocrisy. He emigrated to the United States in 1933.

Drawing; painting; printmaking

Major Works

  • 1916–17Metropolis
  • 1917–19Germany: A Winter’s Tale
  • 1926Pillars of Society
  • 1926The Eclipse of the Sun
  • 1918Fit for Active Service
  • 1917–18The Funeral
  • 1921Gray Day
  • 1920Republican Automatons
  • 1920Daum Marries Her Pedantic Automaton George
  • 1919Café

Interviews & Writing

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