Ecce Homo.

by George Grosz

Unusual book

Genres: Art, Fiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1923

About the author

George Grosz (German: [ɡʁoːs]; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He immigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died shortly afterwards.

Reviews

[Tierney · Rating 5 out of 5]

George Grosz is one of my favorite artists. The way that grotesqueness, depravity, frailty, and neediness are occasionally visited by beauty really hits me.

[Russell Mark Olson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not really a book as much as a bound volume of the most beautiful and disturbing images of an ideological shift in German mentality during the First World War.