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Notes of biography

Georg Gross, who in 1916 becomes George Grosz is born in 1893 in Berlin (Germany). He spends his childhood in Pomerania. He studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden from 1909 to 1911, then at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin from 1912 to 1916. In the early 10, George Grosz publishes caricatures in newspapers and magazines.
In 1913, he travels to Paris where he meets the painter Jules Pascin. He volunteers in the army in 1914; is reformed in 1915 for injuries, he is mobilized again in 1917 and reformed permanently the following year due to a depression. From 1915, Grosz translates his experience of war in violent expressionist drawings where he shows the horror and cruelty of the conflict. He is fiercely German anti-nationalist. He speaks English by provocation and caricatures the German people, citizens, soldiers, and clergymen, bringing a violent attack against the established order.
George Grosz participates in the formation of the Berlin Dada group in 1918 and joins the Communist Party the same year. He collaborates with the magazine "Der Dada". The artist expresses himself through realistic or satirical drawing, painting, watercolor painting; he realizes Photo collages, photomontages. In 1920, his first exhibition is presented, year he also exhibits at the First International Dada Fair in Berlin, an event which is a co-founder (with John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann); we notice the presence of works by Max Ernst and Otto Dix. Grosz becomes president of the "Rote Gruppe" (Red Group), an association of Communists artists.
In the 20s, George Grosz is one of the main representatives of the movement of the New Objectivity, a period in which he paints realistic portraits. The artist is repeatedly convicted for publishing obscene images and profanity.
Invited to teach at the Art Students League of New York, George Grosz emigrates to the United States in 1933 (just days before Hitler comes to power) and acquires U.S. citizenship in 1938. He draws mostly landscapes that reflect a new "inner peace". In 1937, some of his works participate in the exhibition "Degenerate Art" organized in Berlin by the Nazi regime; his works are removed from all German museums.
In 1941 and 1942, the artist is a professor at Columbia University.
George Grosz returns to live in Germany (West Berlin) in June 1959, where he dies in an accident a month later. Grosz has forcefully shown the folly of the human race.

We want things naked, we want them very clear, almost artless Otto Dix

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