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Record: February 1949, "interrogated" Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty (sentenced to prison for life). November 1949, "interrogated" U.S. Businessman Robert Vogeler (15 years). April 1951, released Vogeler with a warning: "Our arms are very long." June 1951, "interrogated" Archbishop Joseph Grosz (15 years...
...lower center is a bloated, hog-faced cherub swilling strong drink (explains Grosz: "I come from a drinking family"). At his left, a fat-buttocked nude is grasped by a hand that protrudes from no body; below lies a soft, naked torso and legs, which Grosz says represents the memory of his mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World...
There were many less feverish items than The Pit, including Grosz's old (1927) and well-known portrait of The Poet Afax Hermann-Neisse, so meticulously painted that the skull beneath the hunchbacked mtellectual's tight, bald scalp shows through...
Self-Portrait. The most ambitious painting on exhibit, The Pit, is Grosz's favorite, because it embraces in one canvas "the story of my life...
Hollow in Huntington. Among the most revealing was The Painter of the Hole, I, a nihilistic idyl done in 1948. It suggests that Grosz, who at 60 lives a quiet, suburban life in Huntington, N.Y., is still obsessed with despair. A hollow man sits in a Waste Land landscape daubing at a canvas on which is painted nothing but a big hole. Rats, which to Grosz represents man's conscience "always gnawing at him for the deed he did not do," chew at the easel. This painter once believed in something, explains Grosz, but now he paints only...