Lithograph on handmade paper.
Dimensions: 33 x 41 cm
Signature: in pencil p.d.: George Grosz
Publisher: Print Club of Cleveland, Ohio.
Condition: very good
Private collection, Baden-Württemberg.
Certificate of authenticity.
George Grosz (born July 26, 1893 in Berlin, died July 6, 1959 there) - German painter, printmaker and caricaturist, one of the leading representatives of Expressionism and Dadaism, and later of the New Objectivity(Neue Sachlichkeit). Known for his sharp, satirical criticism of German society in the 1920s and 1930s, especially militarism, the bourgeoisie and political corruption.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and Berlin, and was drafted into the army during World War I, which had a profound impact on his work. His caricatured, grotesque depictions of deformed figures were a sharp commentary on the brutality of war and social inequality.
In 1933, after the Nazis came to power, he emigrated to the US, where he taught at the Art Students League in New York and gradually turned to more classical painting. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died a few months later.
"Storm Clouds - Cape Cod" is one of George Grosz's later works, showing his turn to landscape and a more classical style after emigrating to the United States. The heavy clouds on the horizon can be interpreted both literally and symbolically - as a metaphor for the changes Grosz underwent in his career and life after fleeing Nazi Germany.
Grosz's works are in the collections of the world's major museums, including MoMA, the Tate Modern and the Neue Nationalgalerie.
