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He lived with his two older sisters in a Berlin public house, owned and managed by his parents, until the business failed in 1899.

Either he joins the ranks of architects, engineers, and ad men who develop industrial strength and who exploit the world, or he, as depictor and critic of the face of our time, as propagandist and defender of the revolutionary ideas and its followers, enters into the army of the oppressed who fight for their just share of the worth of the world and for a sensible social organization of life.

Excerpt Art is in danger.

I don't even like to talk about it.

By 1920, he became a key figure of the Dada movement, which was rooted in disbelief that a conflict as absurdly long and devastating as WWI could have been fought in the name of progress.

He was given a discharge after hospitalization for in 1915.

1,280 paintings and drawings — by Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and others — had been confiscated.

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons• He immigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938.

" 52 George Grosz, 1935 In 1936 a New York publisher brought out a volume of recent Grosz drawings.

Artist George Grosz, the great satirical chronicler of the years between the wars, loved impersonation.

Feeling as though his efforts resulted in little or no real change, Grosz declared that he was finished with social and political issues, and his style softened to a more sentimental romanticism.