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George Grosz: Berlin-New York

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George Grosz (1893–1959) was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group. He was born Georg Ehrenfried Groß in Berlin, but changed his name in 1916 out of a romantic enthusiasm for America. Anti-Nazi, Grosz left Germany in 1932, and in 1933 was invited to teach at the Art Students League of New York, where he would teach intermittently until 1955. Over 500 illustrations, drawings, and paintings in this book document the entire output of the artist’s German and American years, including drawings spanning from when the artist was the age of fifteen to his paintings made during his U.S. period. Also included are sketches of stage designs he created between 1919–1954 for theatre pieces by Bernard Shaw, Iwan Goll, Georg Kaiser, Paul Zech, and Jaroslav Kaek, as well as numerous collages. The volume is complete with unpublished photographs from the painter’s private life and two essays by Enrico Crispolti and Philippe Dagen.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published September 2, 2008

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April 25, 2015
En mi cabeza, Grosz y Dix siempre van juntos. No debería ser así: cada uno camino por lugares distintos. La sorna sólo fue un breve destello en Dix, pero en Grosz siempre está y es más profunda. Sus pinturas sobre la República de Weimar y el Tercer Reich tienen un dejo amargo.

Skira, la editorial, hace un catálogo bellísimo -sólo comparable con mi edición de lujo de El Bosco-. Las primeras introducciones no son tan buenas como el estudio general, pero éste último es una delicia. Ahí, se ahonda en la complejidad de la historia alemana que vivió Grosz y se explican detalladamente algunas de sus obras. En sentido estricto, es de esos catálogos que me enamoran por enfatizar más los detalles históricos que los técnicos.
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