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George Ehrenfried Grosz

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George Ehrenfried Grosz (1891/93 - 1959) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts / Germany.  George Grosz is known for Political satire and caricature, Dada expression, educator.

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 Best known for his Dada art and caustically satirical caricature works, Georg Ehrenfried Gross was born in Berlin in 1893, later changing his name to George Grosz.  Some consider him to be perhaps the most outstanding caricaturist and political satirist of the period following World War I.

His father was Karl Ehrenfried Gross, an innkeeper, and his mother's name was Marie Wilhelmine Luise.  When George was only seven his father died.  He and his mother then lived alternately in Berlin and Stolp, Pomerania (now Poland), where Georg started secondary school in 1902.  In 1908 he was expelled from school for disobedience (allegedly for returning a blow he had received from a trainee teacher).

He passed the entrance exam to study at the Royal Academy of Art in Dresden where he specialized in graphic art, and as early as 1910 became involved with satirical magazines.

In 1912, Grosz (then Gross) joined the graphic art course at   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12280 characters.]  Artist bio

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11 Miscellaneous Magazine References for George Ehrenfried Grosz
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Auction Calculating Grosz Income May 2005 Gordon, Margery Yes
American Art Review Envisioning New England December 2004 Grinnell & Hunter Yes
American Artist A Permanent Record of What Has Been May 2004 Koob, Pamela N Yes
American Artist Musings on Drawings May 2001 Abeles, Sigmund Yes
Art & Auction The Art Show February 2000 Adams, Rebecca Knapp Yes
ARTnews Reviews February 2000 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Reviews February 1998 Editors, Art News Yes
American Art Review Still Life, Object in Ameican Art October 1997 Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald Yes
Art & Antiques Before and After April 1997 Loos, Ted Yes
Art in America Despised Pleasures January 1996 Ziegler, Ulf Erdmann Yes
Art & Antiques Sad Satirist of the Weimar April 1990 Kramer, Hilton No
182 Book References for George Ehrenfried Grosz
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Rudd, Brandon and Gregory Nosan, Editors; Wally Mason, Director's Mewssage Works on Paper from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art 312 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Peter Selz George Grosz His Visual and Theatrical Politics
(Exhibition catalog)		 115 No
2003 Kranzfelder, Ivo Grosz (Taschen Basic Art) 96 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1998 Grosz, George George Grosz: An Autobiography 325 Yes
1997 Lucie-Smith, Edward Visual Arts in the 20th Century 400 Yes
1997 Tesch, Jurgen/E Hollmann Icons of Art The 20th Century 216 Yes
1997 Whitford, Frank (Editor) The Berlin of George Grosz Drawings, Watercolors 224 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Dawtry, Liz (others) Investigating Modern Art 185 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Grosz, George; Peter-Klaus Schuster George Grosz: Berlin-New York 590 Yes
1996 Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald Still Life The Object in American Art, 1915-1995
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1996 White, Robert (Editor) New Mexico Art History Conference Abstracts, 1986-1995 88 No
1995 Craig-Martin, Michael Drawing the Line Reappraising Drawing Past and Present
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day 960 Yes
1994 Altshuler, Bruce The Avant-Garde in Exhibition New Art in the 20th Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 288 Yes
1994 Kranzfelder, Ivo George Grosz 96 Yes
1994 LeClair, Charles The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition) 144 No
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1993 Henkes, Robert Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference 260 Yes
1991 Lewis, Beth Irwin George Grosz: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic 370 Yes
1991 Murken, Axel/Christa Murken Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts 358 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gustafson, Donna (others) Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1990 Hall, Donald/Pat C Wykes Anecdotes of Modern Art From Rousseau to Warhol 377 No
1990 Tower, Beeke Sell Envisioning America George Grosz and his Contemporaries 1915-1933
(Exhibition catalog)		 123 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Lynton, Norbert The Story of Modern Art 400 Yes
1989 Nelson, Harold B Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape 111 Yes
1989 Weber, Bruce Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 185 Yes
1989 Whiting, Cecile Antifascism in American Art 238 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Finch, Christopher Twentieth Century Watercolors 310 Yes
1988 Flavell, M Kay George Grosz A Biography 355 Yes
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1987 Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum 94 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1986 Deeds, Daphne Anderson Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1986 Hogarth, Paul The Artist as Reporter 192 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Grosz, George, et. al Art is in Danger: (Art on the Line, No. 5) 60 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art of the 1930s The Age of Anxiety 264 Yes
1985 Schneede, Uwe M. George Grosz: The Artist in His Society 217 Yes
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 No
1984 Bromberg, Anne R Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works 219 Yes
1984 Cummings, Paul Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 No
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1984 Grosz, George The Face of the Ruling Class 65 Yes
1984 Grosz, George/Frank Whitford George Grosz The Day of Reckoning 64 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1983 Chwast, Seymour/S Heller The Art of New York 190 No
1983 DeShong, Andrew The Theatrical Designs of George Grosz: Studies in the Fine Arts-the Avant Garde 182 Yes
1983 Goetzmann, William/B Reese Texas Images & Visions
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
1983 Hills, Patricia Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1983 Kaplan, Ellen Prints A Collector's Guide 253 No
1983 National Academy of Design Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1982 Grosz, George The Autobiography of George Grosz: A Small Yes and a Big No 246 Yes
1981 Brown, Milton (essay). ACA Galleries Social Art in America 1930-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1981 Lane, John R.; Michael Botwinick (Foreward) The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection The Brooklyn Museum 60 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Press, Charles The Political Cartoon 389 No
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Grosz, George Ecce Homo 0 Yes
1980 Hughes, Robert Shock of the New: The Hundred Years History of American Art Its Rise, Dazzling Achievement, Its Fall 423 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Lieberman, William S Art of the Twenties
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 No
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Everson Museum of Art Provincetown Painters 1890's-1970's
(Exhibition catalog)		 289 No
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Grosz, George George Grosz: Works in Oil: Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY 35 Yes
1977 Hoopes, Donelson F American Watercolor Painting 208 Yes
1977 Pomona College Works on Paper 1900-1960 From Southern California Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 132 Yes
1977 Sweeney, J Gray Themes in American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1976 Gerdts, William H; Jeffrey Hoffeld American Drawings & Watercolors from the Collection Susan and Herbert Adler
(Exhibition catalog)		 82 No
1976 McCabe, Cynthia Jaffee The Golden Door Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976 432 Yes
1976 University of Minnesota The American Scene Urban & Rural Regionalists, 30s and 40s
(Exhibition catalog)		 39 No
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 284 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 National Academy of Design A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 262 No
1975 Smith College One Hundred/An Exhibition to Celebrate the Centenial Year
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 No
1975 Wolfram, Eddie History of Collage An Anthology of Collage, Assemblage & Event Sructures 192 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Kuh, Katherine (Foreward); Gaylord Freeman (Intro) The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago 274 Yes
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 245 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Franc, Helen M An Invitation to See 125 Paintings from the MOMA 159 Yes
1973 Kramer, Hilton The Age of the Avant-Garde An Art Chronicle 1956-1972 617 No
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1972 Kennedy Galleries Important American Art 1903-1972
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1972 Tomko, George Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum 237 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1971 Grosz, George Love Above All and Other Drawings 120 Works by George Grosz 119 No
1971 Lewis, Beth Irwin George Grosz Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic 328 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Curator American Art from the Denver Art Museum Collection 127 No
1969 Doty, Robert Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1969 Schug, Albert Art of the Twentieth Century 264 Yes
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1968 Barr, Alfred/George Hugnet Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
(Exhibition catalog)		 271 No
1968 Grosz, George/Walter Mehring Der Spiesser-Spiegel 60 Drawings by George Grosz 134 No
1968 Kent, Norman (editor) Drawings by American Artists 127 No
1968 Rubin, William S Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (Museum of Modern Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 No
1967 Art Students League American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 126 No
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1966 Cheney, Sheldon A Primer of Modern Art 392 No
1966 Dibble, George Watercolor Materials and Techniques 148 Yes
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Henning, Edward B Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19
(Exhibition catalog)		 209 Yes
1965 Geldzahler, Henry American Painting in the Twentieth Century 236 No
1965 Grosz, George/L Revens (intro) Ecce Homo 210 Yes
1965 Kuh, Katherine Break Up The Core of Modern Art 136 Yes
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1964 Johnson, Una E 20th Century Drawings Part I:1900-1940/Part II 1940 to the Present 284 Yes
1963 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard 20th Century Master Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1963 Grosz, George George Grosz, 1893-1959: Retrospective Exhibition, September 24-October 12, 1963
(Exhibition catalog)		 30 Yes
1963 Woods, Willis F. (Intro); Paintings and Sculpture: Norton Gallery and School of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 100 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1961 Hofer, Philip The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 In Western Europe and the United States
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
1961 Seitz, William C The Art of Assemblage
(Exhibition catalog)		 176 Yes
1960 Bittner, Herbert George Grosz 108 Yes
1958 Cheney, Sheldon The Story of Modern Art 723 Yes
1957 Baur, John I H New Art in America 279 No
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1957 Chanin, A L/Greenwich Gallery Fifty Contemporary American Artis
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1956 Arizona State College Arizona State College Collection American Art 108 No
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1955 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr The Naked Truth and Personal Vision The Length of the Artistic Road (Addison Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Arizona State University The Arizona State College Collection of American Art 110 No
1954 Barr, Alfred H Jr Masters of Modern Art 239 Yes
1954 Baur, John I H George Grosz
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1954 Leeper, John Palmer Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute/Selective Catalogue 92 No
1954 Pearson, Ralph M Modern Renaissance in American Art 300 No
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner History of Modern Painting 391 Yes
1951 Metropolitan Museum of Art Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artist Associated with The Art Students League
(Exhibition catalog)		 170 No
1950 Metropolitan Museum 100 American Painters of the 20th Century 132 Yes
1949 Wight, Frederick Milestones of American Painting in Our Century 135 Yes
1948 Editor, Art Institute of Chicago Fifty-Ninth Annual American Exhibition-Water Colors and Drawing 20 Yes
1948 Genauer, Emily Best of Art 182 Yes
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 No
1947 University of Arizona University of Arizona Collection of American Art 106 Yes
1946 Grosz, George A Little Yes and a Big No Autobiography of George Grosz 341 Yes
1946 Gruskin, Alan D Painting in the U S A 223 Yes
1946 Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro) Contemporary American Painting 260 Yes
1945 Crane, Aimee Portrait of America 204 Yes
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 22 No
1943 Pearson, Ralph M Experiencing American Pictures 234 Yes
1943 Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller Romantic Painting in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 No
1942 Wheeler, Monroe 20th Century Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1940 Craven, Thomas Modern Art The Men the Movements the Meaning 426 No
1939 Cheney, Martha Candler Modern Art in America 190 No
1939 Craven, Thomas (editor) A Treasury of American Prints 100 Etchings and Lithographs by Living Artists 210 No
1939 Museum of Modern Art Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 Yes
1937 Logan, Josephine Hancock Sanity in Art 127 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1934 Barr, Alfred Jr. (Essay); A Conger Goodyear (Intro) Modern Works of Art: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
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