George Grosz: Berlin-New York
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Love Above All and Other Drawings (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
 List Price: Price: $9.95 DescriptionOne hundred and twenty brilliant Expressionist drawings capture the essence of Berlin during the 1920s. Devastating satiric works reveal prostitutes, porcine profiteers, inflation millionaires, and callous nouveau riche in a milieu in which starvation, disease, and desperation are just around the corner. Includes complete English captions.
George Grosz: The Years in America, 1933-1958
 List Price: Price: $54.74 You Save: $20.26 (27%) DescriptionThe Dada caricaturist, draughtsman and painter George Grosz (1893-1959) spent more than half of his creative career--27 years--living and working in the United States. The effects of this emigration upon his art were once widely deemed to be wholly negative, since it seemingly marked a rejection of aggressively political satire: "I had simply lost all interest in human weaknesses and individual foibles," wrote Grosz in his autobiography, "and the further I drew away from them, the closer I felt to nature." Grosz was particularly passionate about the art of watercolor--so much so that shortly before his death in 1959 he began to write a book on watercolor technique--and his innovations in this area, alongside his caricatures of New York life and his more apocalyptic war paintings, have at last been retreived from the respective shadows of Grosz's own earlier work and of American Abstract Expressionism, which reigned supreme during Grosz's American years. This is the first book devoted to this crucial phase in his life.
George Grosz: An Autobiography
 List Price: Price: $24.25 You Save: $4.70 (16%) DescriptionThis acclaimed autobiography by one of the twentieth century's greatest satirical artists is as much a graphic portrait of Germany in chaos after the Treaty of Versailles as it is a memoir of a remarkable artist's development. Grosz's account of a world gone mad is as acute and provocative as the art that depicts it, and this translation of a work long out of print restores the spontaneity, humor, and energy of the author's German text. It also includes a chapter on Grosz's experience in the Soviet Union--omitted from the original English-language edition--as well as more writings about his twenty-year self-imposed exile in America, and a fable written in English.
The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 1912-1930
 List Price: $70.00 DescriptionNo other artist's work depicts Berlin of the 1920s as unmistakably as the paintings, drawings, and prints of George Grosz (1893-1959). At first politically committed but then increasingly disillusioned, Grosz portrayed Germany from its defeat in World War I, through economic and political crisis, to the rise and triumph of Fascism. His work teems with the characters of the capital of the Weimar Republic: the prostitutes and pimps, the beggars and black marketeers, the scheming politicians, vengeful military and judiciary personnel, dissatisfied workers, and self-important bourgeoisie.This book presents about 150 of Grosz's finest works on paper. It also provides fascinating information about the artist, including several of his key theoretical essays and many revealing letters that are here translated into English for the first time. Grosz was more than a merciless satirist and accurate social commentator: he was also one of the greatest artists of the age whose unerring, razor-sharp line and unique powers of observation were complemented by stylistic and technical innovations. He put the fragmentation of Cubism and Futurism to new ends, gave a new dimension to the mysterious anonymity of metaphysical painting, and employed photomontage (he was one of the earliest practitioners) to reflect the energy and confusion of his period. Grosz was a member of the artistic avant-garde, a key personality in the Dada movement, and he also appealed to a mass audience through his political cartoons, unmatched since Daumier's satirical works of the previous century. This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London from March to June, 1997. Grosz George News
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Expatica Germany11/05/2009For the son of George Grosz, reclaiming his father's art The son of George Grosz -- a renowned artist and virulent anti-Nazi who fled Germany in 1932 -- is trying to reclaim ownership of his father's art, confiscated under Hitler and unlawfully sold to others. New York's MoMa, Tokyo's Bridgestone Museum and
Artfacts.NetPerspectives 166: Torsten Slama style of Magic Realism, Slama's works share the vertiginous perspectives of traditional Chinese landscape painting and the scathing satire of German Neue Sachlichkeit, or “New Objectivity,” painters and drawers like George Grosz and Otto Dix.