GEORGE GROSZ* (Berlin 1893 - 1959 Berlin)

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  GEORGE GROSZ*
  (Berlin 1893 - 1959 Berlin)
  Back view
  charcoal/paper, 63.5 x 48 cm
  verso estate stamp George Grosz
  provenance: Fred Jahn, Munich 2007, European private collection; Authenticity confirmed by Ralf Jentsch August 28, 2008
  
  ESTIMATE #Euro 4.000 - 6.000
  STARTING PRICE #Euro 4.000
  
  German-American painter, graphic artist and cartoonist of the 20th century. Main representative of verism and the new objectivity. Belongs to the so-called exile art. Studied at the art academy in Dresden from 1909 to 1911, at the arts and crafts school at Emil Orlik in Berlin from 1912 to 1916. Worked in the Colarossi studio in Paris from 1913. 1914 as a volunteer in the First World War, after an illness unfit for the war. Became the opponent of the war, like his friend John Heartfield. 1916 Foundation of the first Dada magazine Neue Jugend with Franz Jung and Wieland Herzfelde. 1918 first Dadaist lecture evening in the Berlin Secession together with Raoul Hausmann and Richard Huelsenbeck. 1919 and 1920 foundation of several artificial writings, including the bankruptcy, the bloody seriousness. Satirical caricatures of Grosz lead to protests and convictions for pornography and blasphemy. 1933 emigration to the USA, teaching at the Art Students League of New York. In 1937, his works were classified by the Nazis as degenerate art. His students in the United States were Jackson Pollock and James Rosenquist. Created social and socio-critical work, scenes from the underworld and the red light milieu, nude presentations, caricatures and illustrations. Allow stilistry to be assigned to verism and the new objectivity, comparable to Otto Dix, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter, Karl Hubbuch, Georg Scholz and Jeanne Mammen.
  
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