Olga's Gallery
George Grosz
(1893-1959)
Biography
Georg Ehrenfried Gross was born on 26 July 1893 in Berlin into the family of Karl Ehrenfried Gross, an innkeeper, and his wife Marie Wilhelmine Luise. When the boy was only seven years old his father died. Together with his mother he lived alternately in Berlin and Stolp in Pomerania, where Georg started secondary school in 1902. In 1908 he was expelled from school for having returned a trainee teacher's blow. Read George Grosz's Full Biography
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Suicide. 1916. Oil on canvas. 100 x 77.6 cm. Tate Gallery, London, UK. 
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Lovesick. 1916. Oil on canvas. 99.7 x 76.5 cm. Private collection.
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The City. 1916-17. Oil on canvas. 100 x 102 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain.
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Explosion. 1917. Oil on hardboard. 47.8 x 68.2 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.
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To Oskar Panizza. 1917-18. Oil on canvas. 140 x 110 cm. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Germany: a Winter's Tale. 1917-19. Oil on canvas. Whereabouts unknown.
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John the Sex Murderer. 1918. Oil on canvas. 86.5 x 81 cm. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
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The White Slaver. 1918. Watercolor, reed pen and Indian ink on card. 31.7 x 23.8 cm. Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany.
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Beauty, Thee Will I Praise. 1919. Watercolor, pen and Indian ink. 42 x 30.3 cm. Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, Germany.
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People. 1919. Watercolor, pen and Indian ink. 42 x 30.2 cm. Private collection.
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Untitled. 1920. Oil on canvas. 81 x 61 cm. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Republica Automatons. 1920. Watercolor on paper. 60 x 47.3 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.
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Daum Marries Her Pedantic Automaton George in May 1920, John Heartfield is Very Glad of It. 1920. Watercolor and collage. 42 x 30.2 cm. Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, Germany.
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Grey Day. 1921. Oil on canvas. 115 x 80 cm. Staatsliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Methusalem. 1922. Watercolor, Indian ink and bronze paint on paper, 52.6 x 41.1 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.
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Dusk. 1922. Watercolor from "". Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, Germany.
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The Best Years of Their Lives. c.1923. Watercolor. 62.6 x 49.5 cm. Kunstmuseum Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
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Portrait of the Writer Walter Mehring. 1925. Oil on canvas. 90 x 80 cm. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium.
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Portrait of the Writer Max Herrmann-Neisse. 1925. Oil on canvas. 100 x 101 cm. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany.
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Eclipse of Sun. 1926. Oil on canvas. 210 x 184 cm. Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, USA.
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Max Schmeling the Boxer. 1926. Oil on canvas. 109 x 79 cm. Axel Springer Verlag AG, Berlin, Germany.
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The Pillars of Society. 1926. Oil on canvas. 200 x 108 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Self-Portrait, Warning. 1927. Oil on canvas. 98 x 79 cm. Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, Germany.
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The Agitator. 1928. Oil on canvas. 108 x 81 cm. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Artist and Model. 1928. Oil on canvas. 115.6 x 75.6 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.
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Glad to Be Back. 1943. Oil on chipboard. 71.1 x 50.7 cm. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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Cain, or, Hitler in Hell. 1944. Oil on canvas. 99 x 124.5 cm. Private collection.
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The Pit. 1946. Oil on canvas. 153 x 94.6 cm. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, USA.
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