The Little Grosz Museum (Kleines Grosz Museum) opened in Berlin's Schöneberg district
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George Grosz
George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taugh…
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culture · German artist (1893–1959) · painter · draftsperson · photographer · university teacher · writer · illustrator · lithographer · graphic artist · printmaker · architectural drafter · also George Grosz, Georg Grosz, Georg Ehrenfried Gross, George Ehrenfried Grosz, Georg Grosh, Georg Gross
Born 26 July 1893 · Died 6 July 1959 · Q107194
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2015· 1 entry
Ralph Jentsch – the managing director of the Grosz estate since 1994 – co-founded a Berlin-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the artist
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2008· 1 entry
The museum was funded by private donors and also housed a café and shop
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2006· 1 entry
The Heckscher proposed selling Eclipse of the Sun at its then-current appraisal of approximately $19,000,000
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2003· 1 entry
The Grosz family initiated a legal battle against the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, asking that three paintings be returned
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2002· 1 entry
Actor Kevin McKidd portrayed Grosz in a supporting role as an eager artist seeking exposure in Max, regarding Adolf Hitler's youth
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1995· 1 entry
Against the Manhattan art dealer Serge Sabarsky, arguing that Sabarsky had deprived the estate of appropriate compensation for the sale of hundreds of Grosz works he had acquired
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1968· 1 entry
The Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington purchased the painting Eclipse of the Sun for $15,000
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1960· 1 entry
Grosz was the subject of the Oscar-nominated short film George Grosz' Interregnum
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1959· 3 entries
From the effects of falling down a flight of stairs after a night of drinking
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Died 1959-07-06.
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Returned to Berlin, where he died shortly afterwards
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1954· 1 entry
Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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1946· 1 entry
Published his autobiography, Ein kleines Ja und ein großes Nein, first translated as A Little Yes and a Big No
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1942· 1 entry
Time magazine identified Grosz as a pacifist
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1937).
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1933· 5 entries
A week before Hitler came to power in Berlin
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And his family emigrated to the United States
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Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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Grosz "sharply rejected [his] previous work, and caricature in general
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And became a naturalized citizen in 1938
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1928· 1 entry
And his publisher Wieland Herzfelde were prosecuted and fined under charges of blasphemy and sacrilege for publishing two anticlerical drawings in his portfolio Hintergrund (Background)
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1923· 1 entry
Although his political positions were little changed
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1922· 1 entry
Grosz traveled to Russia with the Danish writer Martin Andersen Nexø
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1920· 1 entry
Grosz married Eva Louise Peter, with whom he had two sons, Peter Michael Grosz (1926–2006), a historian of early German aviation, and Marty Grosz (born 1930), a jazz guitarist
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1918· 1 entry
And was a founder of the Berlin Dada movement, using his satirical drawings to attack bourgeois supporters of the Weimar Republic
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1916· 1 entry
Changed the spelling of his name to "de-Germanise" and internationalise his name – thus Georg became "George" (an English spelling), while in his surname he replaced the German "ß" with its phonetic equivalent "sz"
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1911· 1 entry
Studied at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1909–1911).
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1900· 1 entry
Moved to the Wedding district of Berlin with his mother and sisters
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-07-26.
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