PAINTER

George Grosz

1893 - 1959

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George Grosz (German: [ɡʁoːs] ; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Grosz has received more than 725,615 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). George Grosz is the 243rd most popular painter (down from 220th in 2019), the 635th most popular biography from Germany (down from 576th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Painter.

George Grosz is most famous for his satirical caricatures of the German society during the Weimar Republic.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, George Grosz ranks 243 out of 2,023. Before him are Angela Hitler, Marie Bashkirtseff, Gerard ter Borch, Antonio del Pollaiolo, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Il Sodoma. After him are Gabriël Metsu, Georges Rouault, Piero di Cosimo, František Kupka, Andrea del Castagno, and Carel Fabritius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, George Grosz ranks 26. Before him are Karl Mannheim, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Paramahansa Yogananda, Omar Bradley, Prajadhipok, and Hattie McDaniel. After him are Harold Urey, Damdin Sükhbaatar, Hermann Balck, Qazi Muhammad, Fritz Perls, and Andrés Segovia. Among people deceased in 1959, George Grosz ranks 16. Before him are Adolf Windaus, Boris Vian, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Shirō Ishii, Camilo Cienfuegos, and Bohuslav Martinů. After him are Buddy Holly, Alfred Schütz, Errol Flynn, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Enrico De Nicola, and Ritchie Valens.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, George Grosz ranks 635 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Brentano (1838), Heinrich Lübke (1894), Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), and Wolfgang Paul (1913). After him are Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (1668), Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg (1655), Michael Thonet (1796), Elizabeth Alexeievna (1779), Erich Hoepner (1886), and John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, George Grosz ranks 18. Before him are Emil Nolde (1867), Otto Dix (1891), Anselm Kiefer (1945), Hans Baldung (1484), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), and Gerhard Richter (1932). After him are August Macke (1887), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Max Liebermann (1847), Gabriele Münter (1877), Max Beckmann (1884), and Franz Stuck (1863).

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