George Ehrenfried Grosz (American/German Expressionist, 1893 to 1959)
George Grosz was born in Berlin, Germany in 1893 as George Ehrenfried Gross. He studied under Emil Orlik at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden and then spent a short time in Paris in 1913. He was involved in several court cases in Germany in the 1920′s and eventually moved to New York in 1933 and became an American citizen. He was a guest professor at the Art Students’ League in 1932, and continued to teach there until 1955. Grosz did return briefly to Berlin in 1959, but passed away that year.
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