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Grossmann grew up as the grandson of the Baden court painter Wilhelm Dürr and the son of a portrait painter. He studied medicine and philosophy in Munich from 1902 to 1904 and then lived in Paris for five years as a student of Lucien Simon. Under the influence of Paul Cézanne, he devoted himself to landscape painting and frequented the circle of German artists in the Café du Dôme. Jules Pascin became his closest confidant and teacher, and together they traveled to Belgium and Holland. Grossmann also traveled to northern and southern France, Vienna, Budapest and Stockholm. He visited Italy together with Hans Purrmann. From 1910 he lived mainly in Berlin, worked as a graphic artist and, as an illustrator, created, among other things, portraits for Simplicissimus. In 1928 he became a professor at the Berlin Art Academy and was a member of the Berlin Secession and the German Artists' Association. In his portraits and street scenes he documented Berlin life until 1933. The National Socialists declared his works degenerate and deposed him as a professor. In 1937, three works by Grossmann were shown in the Nazi propaganda exhibition “Degenerate Art” and 206 of his works were confiscated.
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