The yellow boiler — Carl Grossberg

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Artist: Carl Grossberg
Date: 1933
Location: Von der Heydt Museum

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THE ARTIST

Carl Grossberg

1894–1940 · German Reich

Bauhaus-trained painter who found beauty in boiler houses and transformed industrial Germany into precise art.

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