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.
1916. Oil on canvas. 100 x 77.6 cm. Tate Gallery, London, UK.
1916. Oil on canvas. 99.7 x 76.5 cm. Private collection.
1916-17. Oil on canvas. 100 x 102 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain.
1917. Oil on hardboard. 47.8 x 68.2 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.
1917-18. Oil on canvas. 140 x 110 cm. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
1917-19. Oil on canvas. Whereabouts unknown.
1918. Oil on canvas. 86.5 x 81 cm. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
1918. Watercolor, reed pen and Indian ink on card. 31.7 x 23.8 cm. Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany.
1919. Watercolor, pen and Indian ink. 42 x 30.3 cm. Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, Germany.
1919. Watercolor, pen and Indian ink. 42 x 30.2 cm. Private collection.
1920. Oil on canvas. 81 x 61 cm. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
1920. Watercolor on paper. 60 x 47.3 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.
1920. Watercolor and collage. 42 x 30.2 cm. Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, Germany.
1921. Oil on canvas. 115 x 80 cm. Staatsliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
1922. Watercolor, Indian ink and bronze paint on paper, 52.6 x 41.1 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.
1922. Watercolor from "". Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, Germany.
c.1923. Watercolor. 62.6 x 49.5 cm. Kunstmuseum Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
1925. Oil on canvas. 90 x 80 cm. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium.
1925. Oil on canvas. 100 x 101 cm. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany.
1926. Oil on canvas. 210 x 184 cm. Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, USA.
George Grosz: Leben und Werk by U.M. Scheede. 1975. Stuttgart.
George Grosz. By H. Hess. 1982. Dresden.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Iskusstvo. 1999.
George Grosz by Ivo Kranzfelder, George Grosz. TASCHEN America Llc, 1994.
George Grosz: Berlin-New York by Peter-Klaus Schuster (Editor), George Grosz (Artist), Alexander Duckers, Helen Adkins (Contributor), Irwin Lewis (Contributor). Distributed Art Publishers, 1996.
The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1912-1930 by George Grosz, Antony Wood (Editor), Frank Whitford (Editor). Yale Univ Pr, 1997.
Ecce Homo by George Grosz. Dover Pubns, 1977.
George Grosz: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic by Beth Irwin Lewis. Princeton Univ Pr, 1991.
George Grosz: An Autobiography by George Grosz, Nora Hodges (Translator), Barbara McCloskey. University of California Press, 1998.
George Grosz and the Communist Party by Barbara McCloskey. Princeton Univ Pr, 1997.