Collection: George Grosz

George Grosz (1893–1959) was a German artist whose savage caricatures of Weimar-era Berlin made him one of the most politically charged draughtsmen of the twentieth century. Working across drawing, watercolour, collage and print, Grosz produced an unflinching portrait of a society in crisis: bloated industrialists, corrupt officials, wounded veterans and street violence rendered in a graphic style that drew equally on Expressionism, Dada and the popular press.

A founding member of the Berlin Dada group, Grosz collaborated closely with Erwin Piscator on theatrical productions in which his drawings were projected, animated and sent across the stage as political scenery. His caricatures moved from newspaper to stage to exhibition, circulating through every medium available to political satire in the 1920s. Prosecuted multiple times for blasphemy and obscenity, he emigrated to the United States in 1933, days before Hitler came to power.

This collection brings together exhibition invitations, catalogues and printed ephemera related to George Grosz and his institutional history.