I had grown up in a humanis... by George Grosz, a German Artist

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“I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.”

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Name: George Grosz

Nationality: German

Date of Birth: Jul 26, 1893

Date of Death: Jul 6, 1959

Profession: Artist

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I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

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It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

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The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

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In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

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