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He also devoted his talent to satirical depictions of pompous army generals, war profiteers, a smug upper-middle class, and politicians.

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.

"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months.

Thus hardly would Walter Mehring begin to rattle away at his typewriter while reciting some piece or other of his own composition, when Heartfield or Hausmann would come out from behind the stage and yell: "Stop! Retrieved December 24, 2011 — via.

And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

We had roughly the same convictions and moods.

Defeat and political ferment always give rise to that sort of movement.

Then, on July 6, 1959, after a night out with friends, the inebriated artist slipped on the stairs of his apartment, dying in the hallway from the injuries.

He later wrote: "I always felt perfectly at home with George Grosz.

Both were painted in 1939, the year Grosz became an American citizen.

Combining the linear quality of the historic graphic tradition with German Gothic art's penchant for brutally grotesque imagery, Grosz utilized these traditional modes to add further emphasis to his contemporary moral perspective.