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...‘The Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse’, 1927, by George Grosz (Room 514) Grosz channelled his Weimar-era rage and disgust into a bleakly objective portrait of a close friend....
...“A painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner or George Grosz of a nightclub scene from 1924 Berlin [is] seen as culture in a museum,” he has said....
...Sometimes, having lunch outside in January and February, I’d think, “This is the best place I’ve ever lived.”...
...Stephen Grosz is a psychoanalyst and author of ‘The Examined Life’....
...Elsewhere, bidding was also deep for George Grosz’s “Gefährliche Straße” (Dangerous Street, 1918), an anguished snapshot of Berlin painted in the last months of the first world war....
...I’d love one of his body-print paintings....
...I’d love to know what you’re doing in 10 years’ time. If the outcome is good, it’s a bonus.’...
...The South African director William Kentridge’s opera productions (Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse, Shostakovich’s The Nose) have toured the world; his abrasive film animations, spiky white scratched on...
...“I thought they’d be grateful and kiss my raiment. Quite the opposite! I was shocked really.” A pause for effect. “It was ungrateful. Impolite!”...
...Once you’ve seen one or two of her explosive pieces, you’d recognise the authorship from three blocks away....
...Certain Scuola Romana artists, and Birolli – later imprisoned for his anti-Fascism – had no compunction about exhibiting in the Galleria d’Arte di Roma, which was financed by Mussolini....
...“I’d just become active in the real estate business, I didn’t know what I was doing, I was scared stiff but I’m pushing down the competition – that’s the guy on the floor – and all around are the buildings...
...The foundation has also teamed up with Hamburg Kunsthalle, Istanbul’s Pera Museum, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris....
...Stephen Grosz returns in two weeks....
...Stephen Grosz returns next week...
...The blend of furniture, furnishings and a domestic scale sets off the superb, generally intimately scaled pictures – by Schiele and Grosz, Picasso and Léger – extremely well....
...Good use of film is made throughout Reina Sofía, including the delightful 1895 Louis Lumière film Sortie d’Usine....
...This time, rather than scoot all over the city I’d resolved to revisit Unter den Linden, pondering the changes I’d witnessed over the years and catching up with recent developments....
...After the war, they influenced surrealism, the shell-shocked cityscapes of Grosz and Dix, and even Edward Hopper’s shadows and silences....
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