Word: grosz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely different type is the work "Central Park" by George Grosz. A true modernist he likes broad splashes of bright colors and brings out his ideas from impressions created by these. An other differing type also are the bitter satires of "The Senate" by William Gropper and of "Landscape Near Chicago" by Aaron Bohrod. Both of these works bring out the grotesque and the absurd in American life...
...feminine in the face. Her coarse skin and irregular features express suffering, her eyes have seen the horrors of war. The work is a passionate attack on the brutality and stupidity of modern civilization. Just as forceful in its attack but far more humorous is the drawing by George Grosz called "Berlin Cafe" The bourgeoisie of the German capital is satirized with vitriolic fire. Portrayals of the sufferings of the lower classes appear in the prints and drawings of Nuckel, Burkart, and Kaethe Kollwitz. The handling is so subtle, the technique so skillful, that these pictures are far more than...
Like many a rebel against orthodoxy, George Grosz was a youngest child. His father was a restaurant owner, of the same solid bourgeoisie the son now satirizes. In the War, Grosz fought first in the Kaiser Franz Regiment, then in the 52nd, became a sergeant, was invalided without a wound...
Newsmen soon found further points of Grosz normality. Said he: "American beer is quite nice, light, absolutely good. but not to compare with German beer." He has hobbies: carpentry, collecting etchings (Rowlandson and Daumier). He smokes a pipe, rarely a cigar. He is married, has two boys, aged 7 and 3, both quite normal...
...Satirist Grosz had opinions last week about the U. S. face (he had seen only Manhattan faces). He analyzed it as typically pale, thin and long, notably Puritan with heavy lines of violence beside the mouth, somehow suggesting the Amerindian...