George Groesz, Metropolis, 1916-17

George Grosz

03.12.2006 …

By MMaxi

Metropolis, Georg Grosz ( 1893-1959 )

An Urban Landscape like Metropolis or Explosions almost seems to explode before the viewer's eyes: the city becomes a teeming inferno with leering figures rushing wildly from place to place. Bathed in a red light, Grosz's Berlin is the epitome of the " big city landscape " of second-generacion Expressionism.
Metropolis exemplifies the anarchy of post war Germany.
The scene is Friedrichstrasse, site of the Central Hotel, which Grosz had already depicted in lithographs: beggars, prostitutes, cigar-chomping profiteers, cripples, and convicts intimately glimpsed create a maelstrom of misery and depravity.
This dynamism of the city owes much to the rhytms of Italian Futurism.

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MMaxi

12/04/2006 17:41

Merci"De Filiiip" I personaly did not know much about George Grosz, I came across his work, while I was studying Italian Futurism and it's influence on German Expressionism the second Generation in the decade of 1915-1925.<br /> All the best from Amsterdam.<br /> MMaxi

Filiiip

12/04/2006 00:20

Impressionnant !George Grosz... le nom me disait vaguement quelque chose. Grâce à ce post, je viens de passer une bonne heure à glaner des informations sur cet artiste puissant, entier, au parcours riche et difficile. C'est marrant, trois jours avant toi, j'évoquais le futurisme italien dans mon blog. Et tu as raison, dans ce tableau de Grosz, les liens avec l'esthétique futuriste sont tout à fait évidents.

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