A Post-War Museum

32pp. Self-folding card wrappers, string stitched (wrappers a tad soiled with a couple of small chips on edges). Contents are bright, fresh and tidy. George Grosz was born in Berlin in 1893. His earliest paintings and drawings showed the influence of Futurism. The war and the social conditions which followed the war in European were too appalling for Grosz to ignore, and his sharp vision inevitably turned to satire. His works have a wonderful beauty, with precision of line eviscerate of the rotting carcase of society he saw around him. As sardonic as Swift, and fired by a similar moral outrage, he was the most effective satirist of the post-war years, and it is not surprising that his art aroused the bitterest opposition and persecution in his home country. A fine collection of his satirical drawings. No 31 in Faber and Faber's Criterion Miscellany series.