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Article: Despised pleasures. (George Grosz, traveling exhibition)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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In Berlin, George Grosz is as much a cultural icon of the Weimar Republic as Marlene Dietrich and Bertolt Brecht. There had naturally been a desire to organize an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in 1993 to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, but important loans were not available. While Peter-Klaus Schuster and a team of curators prepared for a full Grosz retrospective, the artist's son Peter sold a substantial group of works from his father's estate to Berlin's Akademie der Kunste; these included over 200 sketchbooks from the years 1905 through 1958, covering Grosz's full career. The sketchbooks were all on display in vitrines at the Neue Nationalgalerie ...
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Article: FEAR AND LOTHING IN BERLIN; The Berlin of George ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);
March 23, 1997 ;
700+ words
... ... of secrecy and deception at its heart. No artist has ever captured the soul of a city as perfectly as the Berlin painter George Grosz did between the wars. It's difficult to think of pre-Hitler Berlin and not think of Grosz's terrifying, blunt images ...
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