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George Grosz

German Artist

Born: Jul 26, 1893

Died: Jul 6, 1959

Few Great Man Me People War

Related authors: Albert Oehlen Albrecht Durer Anselm Kiefer Hans Hofmann Josef Albers Kathe Kollwitz Martin Kippenberger Rudolf Arnheim

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. George Grosz

Art Culture Old Bourgeoisie Collapsing Ploy Standing Keep Defend

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either. George Grosz

War Thought Would Never Perhaps End Did Either

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. George Grosz

Best Game Fight Stupidity Own Bitter Bitter End My Own Brutality Could Beat Self Simply Ideals Course End Up Did Manage Stood Disgusting Which Them Beliefs Defending

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. George Grosz

Business Genius Personality Profit Promote Only Poets Individuality Greater Cult Itself Personage Which Really Painters

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind. George Grosz

Peace Joy Drunk Stricken Blind Were Us

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it. George Grosz

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