George Grosz
1893-1959
German Expressionist Painter
Influences: Surrealism, Cubism, Francisco Goya, James Ensor, Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky
Education - The Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin, Royal Academy in Dresden and the Academie Colarossi, Paris,
Mental Health - attempted commit suicide in 1917
The artist's art was declared to be Entartete Kunst by the horrible Nazis. In 1938 the government revoked Grosz's German citizenship and many of his greatest masterpieces were thrown on bonfires to the delighted cheers of German crowds.
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George Grosz Quotations
"The cult
of individuality and
personality, which promotes
painters and poets only to
promote itself, is really a
business. The greater the
'genius' of the personage,
the greater the profit." --
George Grosz
"The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity." -- George Grosz
"The bourgeoisie and the
petty bourgeoisie have armed
themselves against the
rising proletariat with,
among other things,
"culture." It's an old ploy
of the bourgeoisie. They
keep a standing "art" to
defend their collapsing
culture." -- George Grosz
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