The Visual Arts and Cultural Migration in the 1930s and 1940s: A Literature Review

Abstract

In 1932, the artist George Grosz offered an optimistic account of his arrival to the United States:It was really quite a change from Germany at that time, when you saw so few happy faces and heard so much complaining and quarreling. You had the impression that Americans of all races, classes, and occupations were satisfied with the world, and actually, in spite of the Depression, their American world was still much more colorful and richer than the German.