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...George Grosz's first drawings, done when he was twelve, represented a battle in which childlike soldiers enthusiastically killed and maimed one another. Later, as a young man, Grosz did a pen & ink called After It Was Over They Played Cards, showing three murderers sitting over a dismembered corpse. In his obsession with death, Grosz became a rebel against life, against the way men live it and treat each other. Before he escaped from Naziism in 1932, he was one of Germany's best and bitterest satirists...
After he came to the U.S., Grosz softened a bit, did imaginative Manhattan skylines, swirling sea dunes and other nature pieces, some of them almost Oriental in their calmness. Last week George Grosz's life work in all its virulence, violence and artistry was on view in a great, retrospective show at Manhattan's Whitney Museum: 120 oils, watercolors and drawings dating from 1909 to 1953. Though interspersed with a few quiet pieces, it was a compelling collection of horrors. It was also new evidence that Grosz is one of the most forceful artists alive...
...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...
...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...