Artist George Grosz

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George Grosz
Born Georg Ehrenfried Groß
July 26, 1893
Berlin, German Empire
Died July 6, 1959 (aged 65)
West Berlin
Nationality German, American (after 1938)
Education Dresden Academy
Known for Painting, drawing
Notable work The Funeral (Dedicated to Oscar Panizza)
Movement Dada, New Objectivity

George Grosz (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 group 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. In 1956 he returned to Berlin where he died.