George Grosz was an artist in Berlin at the time, and was known for his characterized paintings of Berlin life.
I like these paintings because they show real people, women with rolls, droopy breasts and big bottoms. I love his use of shading around and under the eyes, dirt on clothes and veins popping out of legs. There's a grubby feel to his pictures that has nothing to do with the sex part of it, and they give the same kind of grubby tone as the descriptions in Goodbye to Berlin give.
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