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George Grosz
The Pillars of Society
1926, 200 Χ 108 cm, Oil on canvas

George Grosz was an amazing painter, illustrator, and caricaturist who combined his artistic talents with an uncompromising radicalism. Grosz detested the bourgeoisie of Germany, and continually attacked and mocked them with his caustic pen drawings. With exacting skill Grosz documented 1920's Germany and the rise of fascism, until he was forced into exile by the Hitler regime.