... this is the title of a voluminous and India ink drawing by George Grosz from the year 1922:
George Grosz (1893-1959) of the new objectivity is attributed. He co-founded the Dada movement in Germany. His social and socially critical paintings and drawings were made mainly in the 1920s Years. His self-portrait shows him with champagne and cigars:
His pictures provoke extremely dramatic and provocative images. Typical subjects are big city problems, such as murder, perversion, violence and class differences, differences that are in it. In his works he makes fun of the ruling circles of the Weimar Republic, draws on social disparities and criticized in particular economic, political, military and clergy.
George Grosz from 1932 adheres to the U.S., where he assumed a teaching position in an art school. In 1938, he can be naturalized in the United States, where he writes an autobiography in 1946. His name is predominantly associated with the images of 20's related.
He likes to push the rulers and the powerful of this world as a status symbol of a cigar in his hand or mouth. This is also the spring watercolor "The girls dealers in the year 1918:
that George Grosz himself was also one of the major personalities, Selbsporträts reveals with a cigar, but also the pipe smoking, he was not averse. .
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