Grosz, George

Germany/United States, (1893-1959)

  • George Grosz - Circe
  • Circe

  • (1927), watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper
  • 25.8 x 19.2 in. (65.7 x 48.6cm.)
  • Museum of Modern Art

  • George Grosz - Circe
  • Circe

  • (1925) watercolor on paper
  • 24.25 x 19.25 in. (61.5 x 48.9 cm.)
  • Hirshhorn Museum

  • George Grosz - Sonniges Land: Kindergedichte
  • Sonniges Land: Kindergedichte

  • [Sunny Land: Poems for children]
  • (1920), watercolor
  • 16.5 x 11.5 in. (41.8 x 29.3 cm.)
  • Private collection
  • ADDITIONAL
  • Editor’s Note:
    This is the cover for Sonniges Land: Kindergedichte, Berlin: Paul Cassirer (1920), a book of children’s verse by Bruno Schönlank.

  • George Grosz - La Charcuterie
  • La Charcuterie

  • [The Pork Butcher]
  • (1931), oil on canvas
  • 39.6 x 31.9 in. (100.5 x 81 cm.)
  • Centre Pompidou
  • Series: Der Weg allen Fleisches, 1924-31

  • George Grosz - Metzgerei
  • Metzgerei

  • [The Butcher’s Shop]
  • (1930), oil on canvas
  • 33.1 x 26.8 in. (84 x 68 cm.)
  • Private collection
  • Series: Der Weg allen Fleisches, 1924-31

  • George Grosz - Fleischer
  • Fleischer

  • [Butcher]
  • (1928), watercolour, reed pen, pen and ink and gouache on paper
  • 18.1 x 23.3 in. (46 x 59 cm.)
  • Private collection
  • Series: Der Weg allen Fleisches, 1924-31

  • George Grosz - Boucherie Charcuterie
  • Boucherie Charcuterie

  • [Butcher Shop and Delicatessen]
  • (1927), watercolour and gouache on paper
  • 19.1 x 24.7 in. (48.6 x 62.7 cm.)
  • Private collection

  • George Grosz - Fleischer
  • Fleischer

  • [Butcher shop]
  • (1930), gouache, watercolor and pen and India ink on paper
  • 17.9 x 22.9 in. (45.4 x 58.1 cm.)
  • Private collection
  • Series: Der Weg allen Fleisches, 1924-31

  • George Grosz - Berliner Fleischerei
  • Berliner Fleischerei

  • [Berlin Butcher]
  • (1932), gouache, watercolor and pen and India ink on paper
  • 23.6 x 18.1 in. (60 x 46 cm.)
  • Private collection

  • George Grosz - Fleischerwagen
  • Fleischerwagen

  • [Butcher wagon]
  • (1929), watercolor on paper
  • 20.4 x 27.1 in. (51.6 x 68.9 cm.)
  • Private collection

  • George Grosz -
  • Der Metzger und das Dienstmadchen

  • [The Butcher and the Servant Girl]
  • (1928), ink and watercolor gouache
  • 23.5 x 18.0 in. (60 x 46 cm.)
  • Private collection

About the Artist

George Grosz (1893-1959) was a German painter, draughtsman and illustrator. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dadaist art movement, and was considered a misanthropist and a Utopian. Grosz, was born Georg Gross but changed his name because he did not want a German name.

Grosz is particularly valued for his caustic caricatures, in which he used the reed pen with notable success. Although his paintings are not quite as significant as his graphic art, a number of them are, nonetheless, major works.

Bitterly anti-Nazi and anti-German after serving in WW I, Grosz left Germany in 1933 and lived in New York City as an art professor and painter until 1958. He became a United States citizen, but finally disillusioned there as well, he returned to Germany where he lived briefly until his death one year after his return. [DES-01/11]

2 thoughts on “Grosz, George”

  1. How Happy Hangs the Hog,
    with a hook thru one fat leg,
    he begs not now at Life’s back door
    (black whore!)
    she’ll throw him slops no more
    for Butcher’s blade has chopped his flesh
    and made poor Hog eternal blest

    Hogsong 3/1965

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