George Grosz

By George Grosz The locale of these 120 brilliantly satiric drawings is that of Berlin in the 1920s, but a most remarkable thing about them is their startling contemporaneity. We have to keep reminding ourselves that they were not drawn in New York, London, and Paris of the twenty-first century but in the sensation-hungry, inflation-fed milieu of the Weimar Republic. On an Expense Account, for example, shows a well-fed businessman and his wife. We see only his back and neck, note her tastelessly modish skirts, and we know the whole story. Total Devotion from 5:00 to 7:00 is a cocktail-bar scene, and in the dancing of the slick-haired man and the posture of his partner there is something depraved because it is only sensual. Lunch depicts a matron with unmistakably porcine features holding knife and fork affectedly as she swills. Her dining partner needs no animalization; the blasé bag below his eye, the expression, and the fold below his chin are enough. Can prostitutes, contrary to sentimental folklore, appear smug, bloated with satisfaction, and wallowing in cheap gratification? See Transit Trade to realize the effects of mindless materialism. Schiller wrote, "Swim if you can and if you are too weak, sink." Grosz takes this as his text for a compelling contrast between rich and poor in just two figures that completely refute the Übermensch doctrine. Hemingway in Nada did not depict more tellingly the utter despair of empty lives in the hour when the café closes than does Grosz in They Don't Sing Any More. Love Above All? We are only partway through this portfolio when we realize suddenly how bitterly sarcastic is the title. But the mordant eye, angry wit, and social consciences of Grosz were shared by many of his period. What lifts his art above the transient event is his supremely eloquent use of pen and brush. No one has more expressively, piercingly, and economically, drawn the scenes of his special civilization—so strangely like ours—than did George Grosz. Paperback132 pagesDover, 20128.2 x 0.5 x 11 inchesISBN 9780486226750Artist Monograph, Drawing, Urban Studies, New Objectivity

Love Above All and Other Drawings

By Sabine RewaldA penetrating reevaluation of the period in which the German Expressionist George Grosz created his best-known, most searing satirical works.This overdue investigation of George Grosz’s (1893–1959) most compelling paintings, drawings, prints, and collages offers a reassessment of the celebrated German Expressionist during his years in Berlin—from his earliest artistic endeavors to the trenchant satirical images and searing depictions of moral decay between the World Wars for which he is known today. Menacing street scenes, rowdy cabarets, corrupt politicians, wounded soldiers, greedy war profiteers, and other symbols of Berlin’s interwar decline all met with the artist’s relentless gaze, which exposed the core social issues that eventually led to Germany’s extreme nationalist politics. Featuring masterpieces as well as rarely published works, this book provides further insight into the artist’s creative pinnacle, reached during this critical and ominous period in German history.Hardcover180 pages | 115 color illustrationsYale University Press, 20228.5 x 10 inchesISBN 9781588397546Monograph

George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye

By Ralph Jentsch Text by Juerg Judin, Pay Matthis Karstens, Mechthild Hagemann Previously unseen early works from the Weimar Republic's greatest chronicler and satirist. This volume is dedicated to the early life and career of the brilliant young artist Georg Ehrenfried Gross (1893-1959), who would later become known as George Grosz. Known for his politically charged paintings and caricatural depictions of Berlin life in the 1920s, the youthful Gross had a long way to go before changing his name and becoming the most popular and sharp-tongued chronicler of the Weimar Republic. Gross made his first oil paintings in 1912 while still a student, and by 1914 was working in a style deeply influenced by Expressionism, Futurism and popular illustration. Presenting over 50 works made between the years 1904 and 1917, all but a few exhibited for the first time ever, the inaugural exhibition of Das kleine Grosz Museum, and this accompanying catalog, trace the artistic and biographical trajectory of this great artist's journey.Hardcover 178 pages Walther Konig, 20228.25 x 1 x 11 inchesISBN 9783753302041Artist Monograph, Arts & Photography Criticism

Gross Before Grosz: The Early Years

By Peter Chametzky “Chametzky’s book offers an interesting theoretical analysis of German art. Its sources and documentation are abundant. Chametzky’s knowledge of German art is impressive.”—Yves Laberge, German Studies Review“Compelling. . . . [Chametzky includes] appropriate critical/theoretical and cultural/historical background throughout.”—Shelley Cordulack, Millikin University European Legacy"This engaging book asks fundamental questions about the object in history and how meaning in art is produced and altered over time. Seamlessly weaving together discourses on gender, the body, ethnicity, film, mass media, and art history, Chametzky deftly explores German art from modernism to post-modernism through cogent case studies drawn from the Wilhelmine, Weimar, Nazi, Cold War, and Reunification eras. His perceptive ventures into such areas as Dada, the machine, and hitherto overlooked Jewish utopian thought provide fresh insights on German art and culture."—Timothy O. Benson, author of Raoul Hausmann and Berlin DadaThis book provides a stimulating overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works by Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, Willi Baumeister, Arno Breker, Joseph Beuys, and Gerhard Richter. In Peter Chametzky's innovative approach, these works become representatives rather than representations of twentieth-century history. That is, the art here does not simply illustrate an argument, the art is the argument. Chametzky draws on both scholarly and popular sources to demonstrate how the works (and in some cases, the artists themselves) interacted with, and even enacted, historical events, processes, and ideas. He asserts the continued historical role of material art works in an era when less material forms—photography, film, television, video, digital images—have assumed the function of visually depicting contemporary history.Hardcover 286 pagesUniversity of California Press, 201010 x 6.8 x 1.1 inchesISBN 9780520260429Art History, German History

Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art

By Rachel McGarry and Tom Rassieur This lavishly illustrated book presents one hundred significant drawings from the 15th to the 21st century, including new discoveries and works by both celebrated masters and others who deserve to be better known. Among the artists represented are Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Guido Reni, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pierre-Paul Prud hon, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Lovis Corinth, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Egon Schiele, Edward Hopper, John Marin, Grant Wood, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Edward Ruscha.Catalogue entries for each drawing include complete documentation, provenance, and bibliography. The text provides important new scholarship and attributions; examines a variety of themes, such as connoisseurship, patronage, materials and techniques, watermarks, and collectors' stamps; and discusses how a work fits into the artist's oeuvre or represents larger developments in artistic movements or trends in artistic production. Hardcover288 pagesBooks & Projects, 201410.3 x 1.4 x 12.6 inchesISBN 9780989371841Museum Collections, Drawings

Master Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

By Michael White "With Generation Dada, White has presented readers with a powerful new portrait of an avant-garde that flourished in one of the most fraught cities of the early twentieth century." —Catherine Craft, Burlington Magazine“In a well researched, detailed examination of the Berlin avant-garde in the context of WWI, White . . . offers a fresh analysis of the key events and personal relationships that helped form the artistic practices of some of the central figures of the German Dada movement. In an informative but refreshingly accessible style, the author manages to pay close attention to the intricacies of cultural and historical context as well as the formal elements of the works themselves . . . demonstrating a keen eye for the relationship between content and form.” —ChoiceFor the Berlin Dadaists, their identity as a collective—Club Dada, to members—was an integral part of their artistic practice. But the circumstances that brought together the likes of George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann, and Johannes Baader—renamed Propaganda Marshall, Monteurdada, Dadasoph, and Oberdada within the organization—have remained largely unexamined until now. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book documents the group'ss beginnings in wartime Berlin and reveals how these relationships influenced its provocative acts, which were inextricably tied to the era's chaos and brutality. Studying how the Dadaists saw themselves as a new generation—in contrast to their pacifist forebears, the Expressionists—the book sheds light on key developments and events, such as the First International Dada Fair, held in Berlin in 1920. It also offers the first serious consideration of the group's role in constructing its own legacy, even as the works were deliberately rooted in the ephemeral.Michael White is reader in the history of art at the University of York and is best known internationally for his research on the early-20th-century De Stijl group in the Netherlands. Hardcover382 pages | 20 color and 130 black-and-white illustrationsYale University Press, 20137.8 x 1.2 x 10 inchesISBN 9780300169034Art History, Dada, German History

Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War

Printed on archival paper, 12 1/4 x 9 inches. Mounted on a 14 3/4 x 16 5/8 inch matte.Designed and printed at Thornwillow Press in Newburgh, New York under the direction of Luke Ives Pontifell. Limited Edition Print, Watercolor, Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) Movement

George Grosz: Diabolo Player, 1920 [Print]

Printed on archival paper, 8 1/2 x 12 inches Mounted on a 14 3/4 x 16 5/8 inch matte.Designed and printed at Thornwillow Press in Newburgh, New York under the direction of Luke Ives Pontifell. Limited Edition Print, Drawing and Watercolor, Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) Movement

George Grosz: Panorama (Down with Liebknecht), 1934 [Print]

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS George Grosz (1893-1959), Panorama (Down with Liebknecht), 1919 Exhibition poster for Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933. 20 x 30 inches

Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933 Exhibition Poster

Text by Heather Arnet, Ralf Kemper, Juerg Judin, Pay Matthis Karstens, Alice Delage, and Karli Wurzelbacher.German draughtsman George Grosz (1893–1959) created his last major series of paintings and watercolors, the “Stick Men”, beginning in the mid-1940s in reaction to the Holocaust and the other atrocities of the Second World War. The deployment of atomic bombs in Japan and the threat of a Third World War further deepened what the artist termed his “despair, hate and disillusionment.” In his final works, he drew his figures as dehumanized, famished beings aimlessly wandering through a contaminated, post-apocalyptic world. As the first exhibition of the “Stick Men” series following the artists’ death, this catalog contradicts the notion that Grosz had become “soft” and apolitical during his years spent in the United States. Rather, this series is the culmination of the political and artistic convictions of a lifetime of struggle: a timely and relevant legacy even today.Hardcover148 pages | 76 color and 14 black-and-white illustrationsWalther König, 20248 x 10.75 inchesISBN 9783753304403 Artist Monograph, World War II

George Grosz: The Stick Men

George Grosz (1893-1959) Eclipse of the Sun, 1926

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Love Above All and Other Drawings

George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye

Gross Before Grosz: The Early Years

Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art

Master Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War

George Grosz: Diabolo Player, 1920 [Print]

George Grosz: Panorama (Down with Liebknecht), 1934 [Print]

Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933 Exhibition Poster

George Grosz: The Stick Men

George Grosz: Eclipse of the Sun [Postcard]

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Love Above All and Other Drawings

George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye

Gross Before Grosz: The Early Years

Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art

Master Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War

George Grosz: Diabolo Player, 1920 [Print]

George Grosz: Panorama (Down with Liebknecht), 1934 [Print]

Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933 Exhibition Poster

George Grosz: The Stick Men

George Grosz: Eclipse of the Sun [Postcard]

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