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By contrast, in 1942 magazine identified Grosz as a pacifist.

True, living was cheap, and we had enough of the bare necessities, but we were constantly beset by money worries now.

At the centre of his oeuvre, however, stand his political, critically-engaged drawings; it is through them that Grosz became famous.

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; the art world was in shambles, many of his friends were dead and political chaos continued in Germany with the looming Cold War.

He immigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938.

2 Facts on File, 2005 : 287• Svetlana Stepanova Photo by: Berlin GTafel Grosz Born in Berlin as Georg Gross in 1893 on July 26 th, he studied at the School of Arts and Crafts and as a student was a regular at the , where the German Expressionists gathered.

By this point, however, Grosz was revelling in : as an artist he largely split his efforts between street scenes of Manhattan and windswept landscapes of Cape Cod.

In one drawing, 1935 , Grosz "shows a teacher demonstrating to his chained pupils a picture of the enemy, a blood-dripping Jewish Bolshevik, while next to it hangs the ideal of the upright German complete with a sword and palm leaf.

7 George Grosz, 1955 In those days after the First World War we were all Dadaists.