Letters : letters to Richard and Beate Huelsenbeck, 1928-1959 [holograph and typescript]

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Letters : letters to Richard and Beate Huelsenbeck, 1928-1959 [holograph and typescript]

Letters, postcards, and printed ephemera sent by George Grosz to Richard and Beate Huelsenbeck. One four page letter is dated 27 May 1928. The letters otherwise date 1936 to 1958, the period during which Grosz lived in exile in rural Long Island while the Huelsenbeck's lived in New York City, and range widely in subject.

32 letters and postcards, 17 related items, bound ; 32 cm.

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University of Iowa Libraries

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Grosz, George, 1893-1959

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George Grosz was a German-born artist. His early works seethed with satire for social conditions in Germany but, after emigrating to the United States, his works were equally accomplished but less political. He worked successfully as an oil painter, printmaker, and illustrator. From the description of George Grosz letter to W.H. Auden, 1944 Nov. 12. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 53458459 Grosz was a German-born artist, who moved to the U.S. i...

Huelsenbeck, Richard, 1892-1974

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German poet, closely involved with the Zürich Dada movement, Huelsenbeck introduced Dada to Berlin and edited several important Dada journals. From the description of Richard Huelsenbeck papers, 1910-1978. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78263944 One of the original founders of the Dada movement in Zurich. As a writer, he was associated with the Dadaists in Zurich and Berlin. He was living in Germany in 1933 when Hitler rose to power and immigrated to the Un...