“When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had any inkling of its great possibilities, nor of the thorny yet successful road it was to take. As so often happens in life, we had stumbled across a vein of gold without knowing it.”
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George Grosz
George Grosz was a German artist born on July 26, 1893, and died on July 6, 1959. He was one of the key figures in the Expressionist movement, known for his satirical and critical paintings. more
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