1893
Was born as Georg Ehrenfried July 26, 1893 in Berlin
1909-11
Attended the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden
1912-17
Attended the "Kunstgewerbeschule" in Berlin as disciple of Emil Orlik
19114
Volunteered for military service to preempt the general conscription into the army
1915
Invalided out of military service after a surgical operation
1916
Name change into George Grosz
Publication of his drawings in the monthly journal "Neue Jugend"
1917
Re-conscription into the army
After hospital stay in a military hospital and sanatorium, he was finally considered unsuitable for service and discharged
The portfolios "Erste George Grosz-Mappe" and "Kleine Grosz Mappe" were published by the Berlin Malik-Verlag
1919
Member of the German Communist Party
1920
First solo exhibition in the Munich-based gallery "Neue Kunst Hand Goltz"; joint organizer of the "First International Dada Fair" in Berlin
1921
Criminal prosecution for slandering the Reichswehr after the exhibition of his portfolio "Gott mit uns" at the Dada Fair in Berlin
1923
Resignation from the German Communist Party
Another charge followed because of an "offence against moral" in his series "Ecco Homo"
1924
Exhibtion at the Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin
First solo exhibition at the Galerie Billiet, Paris
1928
Grosz produces more than 300 drafts and watercolours to plan the staging of the theater play "Die Abenteur des braven Soldaten Schwejk" by Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923) in Berlin
Third court case in 1929 because he Grosz was accused of blashemy in the series "Hintergrund"
1932
Guest professorship at the Art Students' League, New York
1933
Emigration to New York after Adolf Hitler came to power
1937
Guggenheim Fellowship
1938
US citizenship
1940
Awarded with the Carol H. Beck Medal by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1941
Retrospective in the Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
Publication of his autobiography "A Little Yes and a Big No" in New York
1954
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1955
Publication of the German edition of his autobiography "Ein kleines Ja und ein großes Nein"
1958
Extraordinary member of the "Berliner Akademie der Künste" by election
1959
George Grosz dies on the 6th of July, shortly after his move to Berlin