1685236

1966 Ecce Homo George Grosz Watercolors #1685236

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1966 Ecce Homo George Grosz Watercolors #1685236
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***EXCERPTED RESEARCH INFO ABOUT THE ARTIST/AUTHOR: "...Grosz?s paintings depicted modern city life with its desire, passions, and crimes. For Grosz, the chaos of the big city reflected the amorality of man. His basic attitude was totally pessimistic. By disregarding the laws of perspective, Grosz?s paintings represented a world falling into pieces. The sexual explicitness in his drawings matched the perverted knowledge of a precocious youth. Despite his distaste for anything romantic, one cannot fail to notice rather poetic moons and stars shining above city streets...In 1918 Grosz returned to Berlin even more convinced of society's insanity. At that time he made violently anti-war drawings, and drawings and paintings attacking the social corruption of Germany, including capitalists, prostitutes, the Prussian military caste and the middle class. Together with John Heartfield, master of the political photomontage, and his brother Wieland, Grosz produced a cartoon film, which unfortunately is lost today. They had been commissioned to make a war propaganda film for Germany; instead they turned into its opposite. In fact, Grosz considered himself a propagandist of the social revolution. He not only depicted victims of the catastrophe of the W.W.I?the disabled, crippled, and mutilated?he also portrayed the collapse of the capitalist society and its values. His wartime line drawings show him to be a master of caricature. In 1918 Grosz joined the German Communist Party; in 1919 he became ...
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<tr><td>Condition:NEAR MINT</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1966</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:1966 Ecce Homo George Grosz Watercolors</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Glendale, Arizona</td></tr>
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