Word: grosz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monster named George Grosz arrived last week from Germany to teach at Manhattan's Art Students' League. It was his first U. S. visit, yet wild rumors and alarums had prefixed him a monster...
...Artist Grosz's name had sundered the Art Students' League in April (TIME, April 18). President John Sloan had moved to engage Artist Grosz; Director Jonas Lie, a respectable academician, countermoved. Both resigned, Sloan effectually. Artist Lie called Artist Grosz "not a healthy influence for the progress of American youth." In addition it was whispered that Grosz was a Communist...
...Artist Grosz's picture of Christ on the Cross wearing a gas mask and Wellington boots (an illustration for the novel, Schweik the Good Soldier) got him and his publisher convicted of blasphemy in 1928. When Grosz explained he had meant only that Christ might have been conscripted in the German draft, they were acquitted...
Burgeois Germany has crumpled before Grosz's terrible pencil, his contemptuous and exact eye. Frequent victims are bull-necked burghers, drunken women with raddled skin and pendulous breasts, fops with snub noses and muskrat mouths, gaunt marble-jawed soldiers, starving children, slatternmouthed old shrews. All are made contemptible, rarely laughable. The pictures look like a child's scrawls, full of scratchy, distracting detail. But critics perceive the basis of sound craftsmanship, understand Grosz's potent European influence. Knowing that satirists usually resemble their favorite object of satire, pupils at the Art Students' League were wondering which...
Jonas Lie still mistrusts too much force in other men's painting. At the Art Students' League he lately fought a wordy battle with grey-thatched President John Sloan, another painter who can argue, over the propriety of inviting George Grosz, potent German modernist, to teach at the League. George Grosz has had quite as sound academic training as Jonas Lie, but since the War he has lost interest in fishing boats, cows, rocks. An embittered critic of the bourgeoisie, he does biting caricatures on canvas of bloated politicians, policemen, militarists, ?subjects appalling to genteel Jonas Lie. The upshot...