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    PILLAR OF SOCIETY

    Dec 03, 2019 4 minutes
    By Mary M. Lane

    One afternoon in or around 1920, during the nascent days of Germany’s Weimar Republic, artist George Grosz paraded through Berlin with a poster aimed at recruiting “wellbuilt young society girls” for a party at his studio, beginning at 8 p.m. Roughly 100 guests flooded the studio for a rollicking two-day bacchanalia.

    This and other alcohol-fueled festivities were, Grosz readily admitted, escapes from the trauma and violence that the artist, then in his mid-20s, had experienced throughout the First World War. He called it “contentment and suicide in high style.”

    Grosz had voluntarily enlisted, as had a fellow artist four years his senior named Adolf Hitler,

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