3812 - George Grosz, large collection “Ecce Homo”

George Grosz, large collection “Ecce Homo” 34 sheets from the book “Ecce Homo”, published by Malik-Verlag in 1923 with 84 photolithographs, photolithographs, catalogue number and title in lead on the reverse, some minimal signs of ageing, sheet dimensions approx. 35 x 25.5 cm each. Artist information: born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, German-American painter, set designer, graphic artist, caricaturist and writer, representative of ‘New Objectivity’ and Dadaism (1893 Berlin to 1959 Berlin), spent his childhood in Stolp, Pomerania, from 1898, 1909-12: studied at the Academy in Dresden, where he was a pupil of Richard Müller; 1912-17 (with a break): studied at the Berlin School of Applied Arts under Emil Orlik on a state scholarship; from spring 1913: travelled to Paris for eight months, where he took life-drawing lessons at the Colarossi studio; initially a volunteer in the First World War, he quickly became a staunch opponent of the war and abandoned his German name, calling himself “George Grosz” from 1916; from 1918, he became increasingly politically active, worked in Berlin-Wilmersdorf from 1918 to 1933; as a member of the Berlin Dada scene, he organised the ‘First International Dada Fair’ in 1920 and published his works through Wieland Herzfelde’s Malik Verlag, In 1922, he travelled to Russia and met Lenin and Trotsky; he contributed to the satirical magazines “Ulk” and “Simplicissimus”; he was a member of the November Group and the Berlin Secession; in 1926, he founded the “Club 1926 e.V.”; undertook several trips to France; from June 1932, he held a teaching post at the Art Students League in New York; in January 1933, he emigrated to the USA, where he worked for the satirical magazine “Americana”; was labelled “degenerate” from 1933 to 1945, and his works were destroyed; became an American citizen in 1938; became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1954; returned to Berlin in 1959; worked in Berlin and Huntington; sources: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler and the internet.