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...Haunted Grosz. Since he arrived in the U. S. in 1932, Artist George Grosz has made small capital of his fame as No. 1 War satirist and scourge of post-War vice in Germany. Settled in Douglaston, L. I. with his wife and two small sons, Artist Grosz instead apprenticed himself to the art of oil painting in 1934, has worked hard at it ever since. Last year his explosive Street Fight stirred visitors at a Whitney Museum annual (TIME, Jan. 3, 1938); single "Studies in Textures" have appeared elsewhere. Last autumn George Grosz became a U. S. citizen. This...
Great artistry and great anger together made Francisco Goya's etchings of the Napoleonic War immortal. The bestialities of the last War were likewise excoriated by German Artist George Grosz. But not often in history has a regime officially at peace stirred an etcher to the anger and disgust shown in a portfolio to be exhibited early this month at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Entitled Ecraser l'Infàme ("Crush the Infamous"), these etchings are by a 33-year-old Austrian, Baron Rudolf Charles von Ripper, an "Aryan" and devout Roman Catholic, who, in the winter...
...self-taught artist and international wanderer, friend of Grosz in Berlin in the middle '20s, von Ripper resisted Nazi beatings so well that the late Austrian Government was finally able to rescue him. Elaborately Freudian and symbolic, his etchings are related in texture and technique as closely to Goya as to Contemporaries Grosz and Max Ernst. One of them is of the Man of the Year (see cover}. Artist von Ripper, an "Enemy of the State" in Germany, considers his work his answer to a Gestapo-Commissioner who warned him to keep his mouth shut...
...brutal "Brotherly Love," he achieves wonders with his medium. He employs color to express his emotions, and without the violent reds and contrasting blues, greens, and yellows, the picture would lack its forceful meaning. This war picture has, however, the necessary form in which Zerbe is so deficient. Grosz seems to round out his color scheme and to give real modeling to the figures. It is he who provides the answer to the question as to the value of such painters, for there are few if any artists producing today who have such life, feeling, and meaning...
...instrument of class struggle, and many Lovers of Labor subjects have appeared. One of these is able Sculptor Max Kalish, represented in the Baltimore show by The Spirit of American Labor (see cut) and seven other pieces. Contrasting such idealization with satirical but penetrating prints such as George Grosz's Workingman's Sunday (see cut) or Peggy Bacon's Help! (see cut), Baltimoreans last week put their teeth in the question of honest eyesight, which has become an international issue of modern...