George Grosz: Berlin-New York
by Ralph Jentsch
from Skira
George Grosz (1893–1959) was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group. He was born Georg Ehrenfried Groß in Berlin, but changed his name in 1916 out of a romantic enthusiasm for America. Anti-Nazi, Grosz left Germany in 1932, and in 1933 was invited to teach at the Art Students League of New York, where he would teach intermittently until 1955. Over 500 illustrations, drawings, and paintings in this book document the entire output of the artist’s German and American years, including drawings spanning from when the artist was the age of fifteen to his paintings made during his U.S. period. Also included are sketches of stage designs he created between 1919–1954 for theatre pieces by Bernard Shaw, Iwan Goll, Georg Kaiser, Paul Zech, and Jaroslav Kaek, as well as numerous collages. The volume is complete with unpublished photographs from the painter’s private life and two essays by Enrico Crispolti and Philippe Dagen.
George Grosz, 1893-1959 (Taschen Basic Art)
by Ivo Kranzfelder
from Taschen
George Grosz: An Autobiography
by George Grosz
from University of California Press
This acclaimed autobiography by one of the twentieth century's greatest satirical artists is as much a graphic portrait of Germany in chaos after the Treaty of Versailles as it is a memoir of a remarkable artist's development. Grosz's account of a world gone mad is as acute and provocative as the art that depicts it, and this translation of a work long out of print restores the spontaneity, humor, and energy of the author's German text. It also includes a chapter on Grosz's experience in the Soviet Union--omitted from the original English-language edition--as well as more writings about his twenty-year self-imposed exile in America, and a fable written in English.
Ecce Homo (Dover Art Collections)
by George Grosz
from Dover Publications
The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 1912-1930
from Yale University Press
No other artist`s work depicts Berlin of the 1920s as unmistakably as the paintings, drawings, and prints of Grosz. This book presents about 150 of Grosz`s finest works on paper. It also provides fascinating information about the artist, including several of his key theoretical essays and many revealing letters that are here translated into English for the first time.
The Divine Comedy; The Carlyle - Wicksteed Translation, Complete and Unabridged (Modern Library Editions ML 208)
The Sketchbooks of George Grosz
Grosz's childhood drawings, cariatures, satirical art, sketches of people, street scenes, landscapes, nude studies. Complete summary catalogue of all extant sketchbooks on the witty, humane observer and former Berlin Dada activist. Distributed by Woodstocker Books.
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