Word: grosz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idyllic landscape above and the luminous nude at the left are recent paintings by the once bitterest satirist in modern German art. In World War I, in which he fought unwillingly-he was a pacifist-Berlin-born George Grosz conceived an emetic loathing for man and all his works. A magazine illustrator in Kaiser Wilhelm's reign, he turned a ferocious drawing pen on post-war Germany, ripped at its vitals in thousands of drawings that resembled the scrawls of a shell-shocked child. His savage pictures, famed in art circles the world over, showed thick-lipped, cigar-chewing...
...looking-glass frames from the Moses attic. Sophisticated Manhattan gallery-goers were charmed by her carefully stippled flower beds, speckled snowstorms, shutter-green mountains. Again Manhattan critics raved: "A challenge to scores of more sophisticated painters," compared her canvases to those of famed German exile George Grosz...
Among Emil Nolde's fellow German "degenerates," Oskar Kokoschka escaped to London, Satirist George Grosz settled and calmed down in the U. S., Ernst Kirchner died of tuberculosis in exile. Karl Hofer, onetime Carnegie International prize winner is still in Germany, has been forbidden to paint. Artist Nolde, now 73, is still in Germany too. But he gets along very well. He is a Nazi Party member. Although he is officially banned, he paints what he likes, sells it while Nazis look the other way. Reason: Hermann Göring collects Nolde paintings...
...which can be found periodically around Harvard without one's ever having to set foot within a museum. Holabird's cuts are hold but not obvious and strong without loss of sensitivity. The full page enclosure is a piece which would suffer but little by a comparison with George Grosz's water-color, "The Way of All Flesh" which deals with a similar theme. (Grosz's painting was exhibited in Dunster House several months...
Several landscapes by Adolf Dehn lend a placid note to an otherwise fantastic exhibit. With paintings by Grosz, Braque, Archipenko, and Gleizes decorating the walls, it might be assumed that the conservative Dehn watercolors would be reduced to insignificance. But Dehn does more than hold his own. His clear, wind-washed landscapes are executed in a manner similar to that of Edward Hopper. The colors are neutralized but are far from dirty; Dehn's whole technique is that of a careful, better-than-average artist...