George Grosz & L.S. Lowry (TR #393)

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TR = Tragic Relief

GERMANY
(1934)


George Grosz
The Unemployed










ENGLAND
(1949)

L.S. Lowry
The Cripples








Small relief for the Cripples: the artist
who illustrated them did not have to
abandon his home country
because of  Hitler.

Unfortunately, the same thing can not
be said for George Grosz. He was the
Nazi's "most hated Bolshevik artist."

The Cripples were featured in  Manchester
as part of a large exhibit entitled
 A City's Pride.

The Salford Museum & Art Gallery
houses the largest public collection
of works by LS Lowry in the world.

Manchester is 200 miles north of London.

In 1938, Grosz became a naturalized U.S. citizen. 
He lived on Long Island for approximately
the last twenty years of his life.

He taught art and what became
his most famous painting, -----> 
Eclipse of the Sun, was given
to a house painter to settle
a $105 debt.

(According to the Wikipedia link)


Long Island is 4000 miles west of Germany.






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Footnotes
An L.S. Lowry book is scheduled for publication next month  by Abrams Books. 

The founder of the legendary art book publishing house–Harry Abrams
makes a ghost guest appearance on the next page.

Upon request, we will create another George Grosz page.
But the next Lowry page is here.
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