GROSZ (GEORGE) 1893-1959
Lot 711
8001 200
Autograph letter with signature of the German artist.
November 30, 1944, signed “George”. 1 p. in-4°. (top margin
sharply trimmed).
To “Dear Bridget”, probably a former student who sent him
“chippings”.
“… I tell you, I was delighted with your “comic strip” and I
think your drawings are very nice and in the right “spirit” of
the thing. You should absolutely continue this work – do you do
the captions yourself too – all Achtung ! ….”.
In 1922 Grosz travelled to Russia with the writer Martin
Andersen Nexø. Upon their arrival in Murmansk, they were
briefl y arrested as spies; after their credentials were approved,
they were allowed to meet with Grigory Zinoviev, Anatoly
Lunacharsky, and Vladimir Lenin. Grosz’s six-month stay in
the Soviet Union left him unimpressed by what he had seen. He
ended his membership in the German Communist Party in 1923,
although his political positions were little changed.