Word: grosz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vilmos Old had been an Arrow Cross (Nazi) leader up to 1945, switched his allegiance to the Red totalitarians when the Russians marched in. The Communists found him a useful tool, used him to press home distorted charges against such people as Robert Vogeler and Edgar Sanders. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, numerous Yugoslav "spies" and Hungarian "saboteurs." Old soon became known as the "hangman of Budapest." Last week the Communist bosses of Hungary degraded Judge Old along with some 200 other Budapest legal stooges, including the hated.Public Prosecutor J. Domokos. With the new Soviet, peace offensive in full swing, the period...
Focusing on the Germany around him, Grosz became one of the most savage satirists in modern art. His enraged cartoons of blood-spitting consumptives, marble-jawed army officers, mincing whores and bull-necked burghers provoked Hitler to call him "cultural Bolshevist No 1." Grosz hated Germany, and he yearned to live in the U.S. His sketchbooks were filled with dreamy portraits of himself as a cowboy or an Indian chief, his room plastered with U.S. posters on which he inscribed mythical greetings to himself from Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller...
...Grosz got to the U.S. in 1932, and started following his mother's advice. Instead of bludgeoning cartoons, he drew soothing pictures of Rubensian nudes, quiet beaches, bustling cities. Ever since, Grosz has been busy exploring life in the U.S. with a loving brush...
...Dallas Museum of Fine Arts last week, Texans got a chance to see how they looked to Grosz. A Dallas department store, A. Harris & Co., had given him a $15,000 commission to visit the city and record his impressions. Grosz's guides say he was like a kid at his first circus; he spent twelve hours a day studying Dallas' cattle yards, stores, churches, bright neon lights and pretty girls. Then he depicted what he saw in 23 oils, water colors and drawings. All showed the vitality and hurry-up energy of modern Texas. Says Grosz...
...Artist Grosz is not so old that he wants to sit back and retire. He hopes to travel even farther west, do a series on Hollywood picture making, then some paintings of San Francisco. Occasionally, friends ask why he never goes back to the acid caricatures that made him famous. That's easy, says Grosz: "I've found out that I didn't want people to hate me. I wanted them to love...