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biography
pronunciation:
[grohs]
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| (1893–1959)
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| Graphic artist and painter, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied art in Dresden and Berlin and served in the German army in World War 1. After years of producing drawings that bitterly satirized middle-class complacency, militarism, and Nazism, he emigrated to New York City (1932), eventually establishing his studio on Long Island. Early associated with Dadaism, the movement that embraced the absurdity of life, he became known as the printmaker and painter who was a sophisticated realist. His later oils were more symbolic in nature. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died. |
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