Word: grosz
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Like many a rebel against orthodoxy, George Grosz was a youngest child. His father was a restaurant owner, of the same solid bourgeoisie the son now satirizes. In the War, Grosz fought first in the Kaiser Franz Regiment, then in the 52nd, became a sergeant, was invalided without a wound...
Newsmen soon found further points of Grosz normality. Said he: "American beer is quite nice, light, absolutely good. but not to compare with German beer." He has hobbies: carpentry, collecting etchings (Rowlandson and Daumier). He smokes a pipe, rarely a cigar. He is married, has two boys, aged 7 and 3, both quite normal...
...Artist Grosz's picture of Christ on the Cross wearing a gas mask and Wellington boots (an illustration for the novel, Schweik the Good Soldier) got him and his publisher convicted of blasphemy in 1928. When Grosz explained he had meant only that Christ might have been conscripted in the German draft, they were acquitted...
Burgeois Germany has crumpled before Grosz's terrible pencil, his contemptuous and exact eye. Frequent victims are bull-necked burghers, drunken women with raddled skin and pendulous breasts, fops with snub noses and muskrat mouths, gaunt marble-jawed soldiers, starving children, slatternmouthed old shrews. All are made contemptible, rarely laughable. The pictures look like a child's scrawls, full of scratchy, distracting detail. But critics perceive the basis of sound craftsmanship, understand Grosz's potent European influence. Knowing that satirists usually resemble their favorite object of satire, pupils at the Art Students' League were wondering which...
...Satirist Grosz had opinions last week about the U. S. face (he had seen only Manhattan faces). He analyzed it as typically pale, thin and long, notably Puritan with heavy lines of violence beside the mouth, somehow suggesting the Amerindian...