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Slide  The Hero   Grosz   [[right margin]] BMA [[/right margin]]

Another German, George Grosz, was a young man at the time of the first World War. He fought in it. Afterward, while Kaethe Kollwitz in her maturity was depicting the timelessness of the tragedy of war, George Grosz was revealing the immediate spectacle of the debacle in postwar Germany. The moral & philosophical collapse of Germany was not without hope to some. They saw the possibility of wiping the slate clean & making a new start; politically in the Weimar Republic, culturally through such playwrights as Georg Kaiser & Ernst Toller, & in part through such artists as founded the highly experimental Bauhaus, a very advanced school of the applied arts, or through George Grosz' vitriolic drawings & prints of the devastated & those who fattened on their ruin. He was the younger generation's ruthless spokesman against all that had been corrupt in the pre-war world, especially the war lords & the profiteers.

George Grosz liked to juxtapose such pathetic & bitter subjects as this lithograph called The Hero, a maimed veteran selling flowers, with secnes [[scenes]] like this