George Grosz's time of greatness was during the Weimar Republic, when he, together with Otto Dix and Kurt Günther, produced what art historian Franz Roh describes as "a new kind of painting: art ...

George Grosz, German Cotton Harvest, Dallas (Cotton Pickers), 1952 Oil on canvas Overall: 38 3/8 x 29 1/4 in. (97.473 x 74.29 cm) Dallas Museum of Art, gift of A. Harris and Company in memory of ...

The heirs of German artist George Grosz are demanding the return of works that were stolen during the Nazi era and now hang in museums. They want to exhibit the works in a Grosz museum, but their ...

George Grosz (1893–1959) created the Stick Men series in Huntington, New York, where he lived from 1947 until shortly before his death. Grosz remained invested in political art following his ...

In 1952, Leon Harris Jr., the owner of one of Dallas’ two large department stores (the other being Neiman Marcus) extended an invitation to a renowned German painter, George Grosz, to come to ...

Six watercolors by a German artist famous for his savage portrayal of the post-World War I Weimar period will be sold in March by a Towson auction house, sold for the first time since a Baltimore ...

DALLAS - Twenty paintings that capture Dallas in the early 1950s, as the city was just beginning to become a sprawling, skyscraper-filled metropolis, are going on exhibit together for the first ...

Grosz, an expatriate German best known for satirical works depicting the rise of fascism in his home country, was commissioned in 1952 by department store executive Leon Harris Jr., whose family ...

George Grosz would seem the very last artist to celebrate 1950s Dallas. Associated with early 20th-century dada and “the new objectivity” — it was anything but — he’s mainly remembered ...