Legal Opinion
Grosz v. Museum of Modern Art
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 3, 2010No. 09 Civ. 3706(CM)(THK)PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS THE COMPLAINT
MeMAHON, District Judge:
INTRODUCTION
George Grosz was an early twentieth-century German artist and prominent member of a movement known as the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity Group. His artwork, consonant with the larger movement, was strongly anti-totalitarian and therefore anti-Nazi. (See First Am. Compl. (“Complaint”), May 28, 2009, ¶¶ 2-3.)
Grosz’s son and daughter-in-law, Martin and Lilian Grosz (plaintiffs in this lawsuit), explain that, although Grosz was not Jewish, his work “typified” the kind of “ ‘degenerate’ art…
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