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George Grosz

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Artist

The Resume

    (July 26, 1893-July 6, 1959)
    Born in Berlin, Germany
    Birth name was Georg Gross
    Caricaturist and painter
    Paintings include 'Suicide' (1916) 'The Funeral (To Oscar Panizza)' (1918), 'Republican Automatons' (1920), 'The Pillars of Society' (1926) and 'Cain, or Hitler in Hell' (1944)
    Collections of drawings include 'Face of the Ruling Class' (1921) and 'Ecce Homo' (1927)

Why he might be annoying:

    He claimed in his autobiography to have deserted the German army during WWI and narrowly avoided execution.
    Actually, he was discharged as permanently unfit after being hospitalized for a nervous breakdown.
    He joined the Communist party (1919).
    Novelist Mario Vargos Llosa described the 'classic Grosz elements' as 'dead people, prostitutes, perverted millionaires.'
    He died from a drunken fall down a flight of stairs.

Why he might not be annoying:

    His collection of satiric drawings, 'Gott Mit Uns (God With Us),' was ordered destroyed for insulting the German army (1920).
    He quit the Communist party after a five-month tour of famine-stricken areas of the Soviet Union (1922).
    An outspoken anti-Nazi, he fled Germany just before Hitler came to power.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 171 Votes: 66.08% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 100 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 166 Votes: 65.06% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 113 Votes: 43.36% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 33 Votes: 84.85% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 28 Votes: 60.71% Annoying