The 1000++ Artworks of topic Symbols and containing the word george grosz, oil on canvas, verism, symbols, 1925

Grosz packed up his righteous indignation and fled Nazi Germany in 1932 for the shores of America, where he became a United States citizen in 1938. Grosz’ Cain, or Hitler in Hell (above) from 1944 places the dictator in the devil’s den, surrounded by the skeletal dead at his feet and clearly feeling...

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The Agitator is representing Adolph Hitler. The castle in the top left hand corner represents the old Imperial Germany and the drum is for marches. The 'big boot' means he will crush any opposing threats to him. The turkey represents good times ahead, but the gravy and wine are blood red meaning tha...

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The City (1916–17) was the first of his many paintings of the modern urban scene

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It is a deeply sarcastic portrait of the German elite classes who supported Fascism. Like many of his paintings of this era it satirized what he believed was the corrupt and bourgeois society of Germany. In this painting Grosz uses his skills as a caricaturist to produce vivid, grotesque, nightmaris...

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Eclipse of the Sun presents a scathing critique of the military industrial complex that controlled Weimar Germany where power and greed reigned supreme. Bureaucrats, who are literally 'mindless,' attend to the corrupt dealings of the corpulent industrialist and the President of the Reich, Paul von H...

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Discover the masterpiece 'Three Women' by Italian artist Umberto Boccioni, a captivating painting that showcases his transformation from divisionism to futurism. This iconic artwork, availab...

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Expressionism at its Finest

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I and the Village is a 1911 painting by the Russian-French artist Marc Chagall. It is exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.The work contains many soft, dreamlike images overlapping one another in a continuous space. In the foreground, a cap-wearing green-faced man stares at a goat or shee...

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