| 1893 |
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Born the son of an innkeeper in Berlin |
| 1898 |
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Moves to Stolp in Pomerania (presently the Polish town
of Slupsk) near the sea |
| 1909 - 1911 |
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Studies at the royal art academy in Dresden |
| 1912 |
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Moves to Berlin |
| 1913 |
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Eight-month stay in Paris |
| 1920 |
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Exhibits numerous artworks at the first international
DADA fair in Berlin |
| 1922 |
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Five-month journey through Russia, including audience
with Lenin |
| 1924 - 1925 |
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Sojourns in Paris |
| 1933 |
|
Moves to New York; directs a private painting school,
teaches at the Art Students League Is the first of hundreds
of opponents of the Nazi regime to have his German citizenship
revoked by the Nazis |
| 1937 |
|
285 of his artworks are destroyed as "degenerate
art" in Nazi Germany |
| 1941 |
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, honors Grosz
with a retrospective exhibition which is subsequently
shown in other cities in the USA |
| 1948 |
|
Grosz is cited as one of the most important American
artists in a survey of American museum directors and
art critics |
| 1959 |
|
Returns to Berlin and dies in the home of his parents-in-law
on Savigny Place |
