From 1909 to 1911 Grosz went to Königliche Kunstakademie in Dresden and he got a certificate of honor there.
He started studying in 1912 at the Atelier of Emil Orlik in Berlin.
Grosz volunteered at the beginning of the war in 1914, but he was released in 1916 because
of a suppurative frontal sinusitis.
George Grosz considered himself a humanist and he has been critical of the enthusiasm for the war, although
he was initially enthusiastic as well. But the euphoria soon abated and horror and disgust remained.
Grosz said that the time of war had had a negative impact on him.
Because of his aversion to the warring Germany, Georg Grosz Americanized
his name to George Grosz.
In 1917 he was called up once again, but he refused to serve and he was finally dismissed.
George Grosz moved to New York in 1933, shortly before the Nazis came to power in Germany.
Grosz and his family came back to Germany in 1959, but he died from heart failure less than a month after arriving in Berlin.
