George Grosz Trivia Questions

The Nazis condemned his art as 'degenerate' and confiscated numerous works from German museums in 1937.

George Grosz was a vocal critic of Nazism. His art was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis, and he fled Germany in 1933.

George Grosz was born in Berlin, Germany, on July 26, 1893. He spent most of his early life there, not in Vienna.

While in the US, George Grosz continued his satirical realist style and also painted mythological scenes. He did not become an abstract expressionist.

He co-founded the Berlin Dada group with John Heartfield, using satirical art to critique war and society.

He anglicized his name to George Grosz in 1917 as a protest against German nationalism during WWI.

Fearing Nazi persecution, he moved to America in 1932, taught at the Art Students League, and became a citizen in 1938.

George Grosz was a key figure in Berlin Dada, creating satirical anti-war art and participating in Dada events in the early 1920s.

George Grosz fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and settled in New York, where he taught at the Art Students League until his return to Berlin in 1959.

George Grosz never won a Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 went to André Gide.

Though both were New Objectivity artists, they were rivals, not close friends; Dix even criticized Grosz's commercial success.

In 1921, Grosz was fined 300 marks and his portfolio 'Gott mit uns' was deemed defamatory to the Reichswehr.

The famous 'Metropolis' poster was by artist Heinz Schulz-Neudamm, not Grosz, though Grosz did film-related work.

In 1921, George Grosz was prosecuted for blasphemy and obscenity over 'God With Us', a satirical attack on militarism and religion. He was fined.

George Grosz's autobiography, 'A Little Yes and a Big No', was published in 1946 and details his life and artistic career.

After leaving Germany in the 1930s, Grosz abandoned political satire for conventional genres such as landscapes, still lifes, and nudes, a style he pursued until his death in 1959.