George Grosz was a fascinating and viceral painter, deeply scarred and influenced by his experience serving in the first world war, before he was discharged and left with psychiatric problems and a serious drinking problem. Many of his paintings from that period deal explictly with the horrors of war and the human cost...
Very much so on Otto Dix. I believe they met after the war, either at an art class or gallery, but I can’t remember or immediately find a soruce for that.
There’s a lot of Ludwig Meidner influence too, especially the colourful lanscapes with multiple or contradictory vanishing points. He was an interesting guy too - his artwork was banned by the Nazis in the 30s, some of his work burned, and he fled before the holocaust started in earnest but his work from then and later is haunted by it.
I used to work in Leeds and some of the buildings from the mid-late 1800s are still there. Sadly it’s mostly banks and finance offices now. There are still churches at both ends, but they’re hidden by bigger buildings and aren’t quite straight on down the street like this.
This isn’t related to the paiting, but I believe it was also the first street in Britain to have a traffic light.
'Explosion' (1917) by George Grosz (hexbear.net)
George Grosz was a fascinating and viceral painter, deeply scarred and influenced by his experience serving in the first world war, before he was discharged and left with psychiatric problems and a serious drinking problem. Many of his paintings from that period deal explictly with the horrors of war and the human cost...
Winter Night by Adolf Kosárek (1857) (i.postimg.cc)
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket by James Whistler (upload.wikimedia.org)
Park Row, Leeds by John Atkinson Grimshaw (uploads3.wikiart.org)