Born in 1893, George Grosz was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) group.
Grosz studied drawing at the Dresden Akademie from 1909-1911, then from 1912-1917 he was a part-time student at the Art School in Berlin under Emil Orlik. He spent a brief period in military service in 1915. In 1916 he joined John Heartfield and his brother Wieland Herzfelde in anti-establishment publishing activities and during the following years he produced some of his most famous works that have now come to create the image most have of Berlin and the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. Corpulent businessmen, wounded soldiers, prostitutes, sex crimes and orgies were his great subjects. In 1925 he was included as one of the main painters in the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) exhibition in Mannheim.
An anti-authoritarian critic of the Nazi party, he left Germany for America in 1932. Grosz was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1954 but returned late in his life to Berlin where he died in 1959.
Grosz studied drawing at the Dresden Akademie from 1909-1911, then from 1912-1917 he was a part-time student at the Art School in Berlin under Emil Orlik. He spent a brief period in military service in 1915. In 1916 he joined John Heartfield and his brother Wieland Herzfelde in anti-establishment publishing activities and during the following years he produced some of his most famous works that have now come to create the image most have of Berlin and the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. Corpulent businessmen, wounded soldiers, prostitutes, sex crimes and orgies were his great subjects. In 1925 he was included as one of the main painters in the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) exhibition in Mannheim.
An anti-authoritarian critic of the Nazi party, he left Germany for America in 1932. Grosz was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1954 but returned late in his life to Berlin where he died in 1959.
