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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Philip Oltermann in Berlin

George Grosz: museum dedicated to city’s master chronicler opens in Berlin

One of George Grosz’s sketches depicting life in Germany after the first world war
One of George Grosz’s sketches depicting life in Germany after the first world war. Photograph: Estate of George Grosz, inceton/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Filled with lustful murderers, dishevelled streetwalkers and hollow-eyed wartime amputees, George Grosz’s jagged sketches of Berlin street life during the Weimar Republic never sought to capture the German metropolis at its most beautiful.

Only fitting, then, that Berlin’s first museum dedicated solely to its master chronicler should not be in the gilded neoclassical halls of the German capital’s Museum Island but a seedier part of the city in which the satirist and Dada artist was born and died.

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