Volume 42, Number 12 · July 13, 1995
George Grosz's Amerika
By Ian Buruma
George Grosz: Berlin-New York Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, May 6-July 30, 1995.
an exhibition Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, until April 16, 1995;
George Grosz: Berlin-New York
catalog of the exhibition edited by Peter-Klaus Schuster
Nationalgalerie Berlin, 579 pp., DM 49 (paper)
On May 26, 1932, George Grosz boarded the New York at Cuxhaven, bound for the United States. He arrived on June 3. From his hotel (the Great Northern on Fifty-seventh Street), he wrote letter after letter to his wife, Eva, in Berlin: 'A new, unbelievable world... for me it is and remains...the finest city in the world—Paris: I shit on it. Berlin, well all right (home, language, unlike anywhere else, it can pass). Rome: pigsty. Petersburg: revolting! Moscow: a plebeian village! London: Hats off! Cool respect. New York: the city!!!!!!'[1]
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