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The Gonzo Weimar Germany of George Grosz
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the German painter George Grosz went from being Vladimir Lenin’s favorite modern artist to a bitter illustrator in American exile. In between, he drew some of the fiercest caricatures of capitalist society ever seen.