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GERMAN ANTI-WAR ARTISTS: GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)

GERMAN ANTI-WAR ARTISTS: GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959). 1912-16: Enrolled in the Berlin Academy of Commercial Art 1914: Volunteers for army at war’s outbreak 1917: Discharged as “unfit for duty” –gravitates toward the “Spartacists”

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GERMAN ANTI-WAR ARTISTS: GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)

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  1. GERMAN ANTI-WAR ARTISTS:GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959) 1912-16: Enrolled in the Berlin Academy of Commercial Art 1914: Volunteers for army at war’s outbreak 1917: Discharged as “unfit for duty” –gravitates toward the “Spartacists” 1919: Leading role in Berlin Dada; joins the German Communist Party 1920s: Fined for blasphemy, defaming the officer corps, and pornography 1932: Emigrates to United States; settles in New York

  2. GROSZ ALWAYS TOOK A DIM VIEW OF HUMANITY “Assassination” (1912) “Brothel Scene” (1912)

  3. “The General” (1916) “Riot of the Insane” (1916)

  4. George Grosz, “Fit for Duty” (1916/17)

  5. George Grosz, “The City” (1917)

  6. Grosz,“Metropolis”(1917)

  7. George Grosz,“Friedrichstrasse” (Berlin, 1918)

  8. Opening of the First Dada Exhibition, Berlin, June 5, 1920:Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Johannes Baader, Wieland Herzfelde & wife, George Grosz, & John Heartfield Reconstruction in 2004 of the “Prussian Archangel,” “From Heaven High, I Came Down”

  9. Raoul Hausmann,“Dada wins!”1920

  10. George Grosz,“Pillars of Society” (1926)

  11. “Cain” (1944)

  12. Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) • 1895-97: This daughter of a Social Democratic stonemason illustrates Gerhart Hauptmann’s The Weavers • 1899/1900: Co-founder of the “Berlin Secession” • October 1914: Falls into depression after her youngest son dies in battle • 1919: Becomes a Communist sympathizer and anti-war activist • 1920: The first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts • 1933: The Nazis expel her from the Academy of Arts and ban any public display of her works

  13. Käthe Kollwitz, “The Volunteers” (woodcut, 1922/23)

  14. Kollwitz, “The Grieving Parents”(military cemetery in Vladslo, Belgium)

  15. Kollwitz, “The Mothers” (1922/23)

  16. Kollwitz,“Never Again War!”(poster for a Communist youth rally in August 1924)

  17. OTTO DIX (1891-1969) 1910-14: Blue-collar youth studies at the Academy of Commercial Art in Dresden 1914-18: Extensive combat experience on the Western Front; wounded several times 1919-22: Graduate training in fine arts at Dresden and Düsseldorf; friends with Grosz 1924: “War” cycle of etchings 1931: Appointed to Prussian Academy of Arts 1933: Nazis dismiss him from Dresden art faculty, ban him from exhibiting, and expel him from the Academy of Arts. 1939-45: Drafted in Second World War.

  18. Otto Dix, “Self-Portrait as a Soldier” (1914)

  19. Dix,“The Cannon”(1914)

  20. Otto Dix, “Self-Portrait as a Target,” 1915

  21. Otto Dix, “The Card Players”(1920)

  22. Otto Dix, “Dugout” (WAR: 1924)

  23. Otto Dix, “Seen on the Cliff at Cléry-sur-Somme”(WAR: 1924)

  24. Otto Dix, “Shock Troops Advancing under Gas” (WAR: 1924)

  25. Otto Dix, “Wounded Man: Bapaume, Fall 1916” (WAR: 1924)

  26. Otto Dix, “War Triptych,” 1929-32

  27. Otto Dix, “Flanders (Inspired by Henri Barbusse)” (1934-36)

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