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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
Cause of Death - He
went out drinking with some friends and ended up falling down some
stairs to his death.
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
George Grosz was one of a number of young, angry painters who exploded onto the art scene after WW1. Painters of the Expressionist generation grew up on the battlefield, witnessing wartime atrocities and returning to war ravaged countries. George Grosz asserted "My Drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, I drew drunkards; puking men; men with clenched fists cursing at the moon. . . . I drew a man, face filled with fright, washing blood from his hands. . I drew lonely little men fleeing madly through empty streets. I drew a cross-section of tenement house: through one window could be seen a man attacking his wife; through another, two people making love; from a third hung a suicide with body covered by swarming flies. I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms; two medical soldiers putting a violent infantryman into a strait-jacket made of a horse blanket. . . I drew a skeleton dressed as a recruit being examined for military duty. I also wrote poetry." In 1930s Grosz's amazing art was declared to be Entartete Kunst by the horrible Nazis. Hitler and his henchmen revoked Grosz's German citizenship In 1938.
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
Key Descriptive Words and Phrases associated with Expressionist Painting - Germany, early 20th century, emotional effects, emotional experience, avant-garde, emotional angst, Herwarth Walden, Der Sturm, graphic art, Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter, Friedrich Nietzsche, psychological depths, symbolic colors, exaggerated imagery, human psyche, exaggeration, primitivism, jarring colors, self-expression, expression intensity, printmaking, psychological,emotional themes, existential anguish, industrial modern age, individual genius, sense of movement, energy
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