George Grosz
Overview
Georg Ehrenfried Groß was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural
drawings of Berlin
life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada
and New Objectivity
group during the Weimar Republic
before he emigrated to the United States in 1933.
George Grosz was born Georg Ehrenfried Groß in Berlin
, Germany, the son of a pub owner. His parents were devoutly Lutheran. Grosz grew up in the Pomeranian
town of Stolp, where his mother became the keeper of the local Hussar's Officers' mess after his father died in 1901.
Caricature
A caricature is a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.Caricatures can be...
drawings of Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada
Dada
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...
and New Objectivity
New Objectivity
The New Objectivity is a term used to characterize the attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it...
group during the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...
before he emigrated to the United States in 1933.
George Grosz was born Georg Ehrenfried Groß in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Germany, the son of a pub owner. His parents were devoutly Lutheran. Grosz grew up in the Pomeranian
Farther Pomerania
Farther Pomerania, Further Pomerania, Transpomerania or Eastern Pomerania , which before the German-Polish border shift of 1945 comprised the eastern part of the Duchy, later Province of Pomerania, roughly stretching from the Oder River in the West to Pomerelia in the East...
town of Stolp, where his mother became the keeper of the local Hussar's Officers' mess after his father died in 1901.
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