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George Grosz

1893 - 1959

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George Grosz (; German: [ɡʁoːs] ; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Grosz is the 242nd most popular painter (up from 243rd in 2019), the 653rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 635th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Painter.

George Grosz is most famous for his satirical caricatures of the German society during the Weimar Republic.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, George Grosz ranks 242 out of 2,023Before him are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Simon Vouet, John Collier, Jan van Goyen, Saskia van Uylenburgh, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. After him are August Macke, Jacopo Bassano, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Andrea Pozzo, Ivan Kramskoi, and Lorenzo Lotto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, George Grosz ranks 29Before him are Harold Urey, Karl Mannheim, Paramahansa Yogananda, Palmiro Togliatti, Walter Baade, and Prajadhipok. After him are Damdin Sükhbaatar, Omar Bradley, Jomo Kenyatta, Lillian Gish, J. G. Strijdom, and Qazi Muhammad. Among people deceased in 1959, George Grosz ranks 20Before him are Heitor Villa-Lobos, Boris Vian, D. F. Malan, William Halsey Jr., Shirō Ishii, and Camilo Cienfuegos. After him are Errol Flynn, Ettore Majorana, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Buddy Holly, Alfred Schütz, and Ritchie Valens.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, George Grosz ranks 653 out of 7,253Before him are Wilhelm Marx (1863), Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786), Christopher Clavius (1538), Martin Niemöller (1892), Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866), and Erhard Milch (1892). After him are August Macke (1887), Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), Niklas Luhmann (1927), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Werner Forssmann (1904), and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, George Grosz ranks 21Before him are Gerhard Richter (1932), Hans von Aachen (1552), Hans Baldung (1484), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), Hendrik Goltzius (1558), and Gabriele Münter (1877). After him are August Macke (1887), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Hans Holbein the Elder (1465), Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937), Erwin Bowien (1899), and Carl Spitzweg (1808).