Word: grosz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second prize went to beefy George Grosz for his The Survivor, a carefully painted war nightmare. Grosz, whose acid commentaries on World War I, and the social evils which followed in Germany, earned him international fame and the hatred of the Nazis, became a U.S. citizen in 1938, settled down in Douglas Manor, N.Y. to paint heavily larded nudes and Cape Cod sand dunes. When his old fears and disgusts overtake him, he is still a frightening artist...
...this and heaven too comes straight off the lunatic fringe-in the shape of a not unpartisan, 132-page booklet, written at high blood pressure by a Washington public-relations man. It is fiendishly illustrated by German-born George Grosz, fervently dedicated to those who are going to make the peace...
...book owes much of its punch to Illustrator Mervyn Peake, whose line drawings (see cut, p. 101) blend Tenniel fantasy with George Grosz bitters...
Among those obliging him (with one or more examples) were top-rank painters Kuniyoshi, Benton, Marsh, Gropper, Grosz, Evergood, Curry; cartoonists Thurber, Steinberg, R. Taylor. (Amiably disobliging was twice-married oldtimer Maurice Sterne, who wrote: "Why not have an exhibition to include artists' wives? . . . Some pretty good painters have been married three or four times; these could be numbered . . . and would be an interesting study in retrogression...
Today dapper, slick-haired George Grosz spends his time, between teaching jobs in Manhattan, with an amiable wife and two strapping sons, in a pleasant waterside home at Douglaston, L.I. A systematic painter, who works long hours, his favorite hobby is carpentry. He cannot pass a hardware store without buying a saw. Only holdover from his macabre past -he confesses a love of horror stories...