George Grosz Quotes about Art

George Grosz was a famous German painter and printmaker associated with Dada, the Expressionists and the Neue Sachlichkeit or New Objectivity art movements. He is best known for his graphic depictions of depravity and filth. Famous George Grosz artworks include “Eclipse of the Sun”, “The Funeral”, “Germany: a Winter’s Tale”, “Cain, or Hitler in Hell”, “Metropolis”, “Lower Manhattan”, “Inside and Outside”, “The Love Sick”, “Berlin Street”, and “Artist with Nude Model”.

Mini biography: Born Georg Ehrenfried Groß on the 26th of July, 1893 in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (Germany). His mother was Marie Wilhelmine Luise and his father Karl Ehrenfried Grosz was a pub owner. Grosz married Eva Louise Peter in 1920 and they had two children: Marty and Peter Grosz. The artist died on the 6th of July, 1959 in West Berlin, West Germany at the age of 65. George Grosz is buried at the Waldfriedhof Heerstrasse, Charlottenburg, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.

List of Famous George Grosz Art Quotes

My Drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, I drew drunkards; puking men; men with clenched fists cursing at the moon. George Grosz

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other. It can be done well or poorly. George Grosz

I’ve been trying to sell my soul to the devil for thirty years, and he hasn’t even come around to make me a price. George Grosz

A composition should be simple and clear. That is why the drawings of children and primitives are so strong. George Grosz

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ‘culture.’ George Grosz

I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms; two medical soldiers putting a violent infantryman into a strait-jacket made of a horse blanket. I drew a skeleton dressed as a recruit being examined for military duty. I also wrote poetry. George Grosz

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

I see the future development of painting taking place in workshops.. not in any holy temple of the arts. George Grosz

My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the ‘depth’ that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop.. A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society. George Grosz

George Grosz Self Portrait Drawing

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