Word: grosz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written with a calm, thoughtful air, describing in great detail the mental processes and the doings of some of the unloveliest people ever seen outside the caricatures of George Grosz. The first of the three books is The Romantic, laid in 1888, and picturing the world of potbellied landowners and their sensitive sons, a world of meaningless propriety, duels, love affairs with actresses; a world so hedged about with tradition that it is a scandal when a young officer leaves the army to manage the family estate. It is the other side of German romanticism-Unter den Linden with...
...works of 32-year-old Artist Koerner, who served in the U.S. Army and later with the U.S. Military Government in Berlin, reminded critics of the post-World War I satires of Germany's George Grosz, but, says Koerner, "there's a difference: I do not accuse." One picture in his Berlin show, My Parents, was more than an accusation; it was a memorial portrait of his parents, painted in the Vienna woods, with their backs turned. (They had died in a Nazi concentration camp.) That was a picture which Europeans could best understand...
...brushes on the black market, and almost anyone can sell his stuff (paintings are considered a reasonably good hedge against inflation). But German art is still far below pre-Hitler standards. One good reason why: the painters Hitler had exiled have shown no inclination to hurry back. George Grosz has become a Long Island suburbanite; Lyonel Feininger is busy making watercolors of Manhattan skyscrapers; Max Beckmann broods in Amsterdam...
...gone German. Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s. Along with My Parents, the show's strongest painting was The Prophet (see cut), which reminded critics of Expressionist Grosz and also of Koerner's favorite Old Master, Peter Bruegel. (Of his bony, monkey-like Prophet, Koerner said that he "might be a demagogue or a statesman, and the man hanging might be a villain or a hero. The people must listen because they can do nothing else...
...Grosz's "little yes" to the U.S. remains conditional. "Naturally," he explains, "one needs constant practice. It is not: a simple matter to keep repeating daily: 'Yes, everything is fine...