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...both France and Poland. When he came out of the army he found comradeship with a generation of gifted, irascible young .intellectuals and artists whose loathing of that "whole immense Schweinerei of the imbecilic war" crossed the frontiers of Europe: Jean Arp and Tristan Tzara in Zurich, George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann in Berlin, Kurt Schwitters in Hannover, André Breton and his growing circle in Paris...
...would intermesh smoothly with the rest of the Kitchen, the house--in short, the world, Waking to that well-designed harmony, you were expected to feel one, good, and two, part of a universal humanity. Considering the social overtones of the school, portfolio contributions from German social satirists George Grosz and Max Beckmann are understandable...
Busch-Reisinger. Paintings from the Weimar Republic, coupled with theatrical watercolors by George Grosz. Divine decadance in excelsis. Go see Cabaret for background. Closes...
Grotesques seem to abound here; The old men who every night shuffle out in old bedroom slippers, head naked and gaunt over the walking stick without which even his incredibly slow progress would be impossible. The buck-toothed man, as if drawn by Grosz, handing out the fundamentalist Watchtower. The butcher-like businessman who refuses his subway seat to the cripple thrusting a certificate of disability into his face. The street hawker of lottery tickets, with 50 mark bills stuck around hat band and belt, and a sign announcing the "security" to be gained from the lottery. Lapses of taste...
World War I and its bitter aftermath brought forth a new art in Germany. George Grosz's work, which has its roots in the Berlin Dada movement, attacks postwar German society with a viciousness that spares neither the Prussian military nor the lowest member of the Lumpenproletariat. Otto Dix's caricatures are equally bitter -- Dix spares not even himself. The differences between Nolde's and Dix's self-portraits illuminate the difference between the moods of pre and post-war Germany. Nolde's is brooding and mystical, with a hint of secrets yet to be revealed. Dix turns the full...