Rudolph Grossmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1882. He began his education in painting and printmaking at Dusseldorf Academy, and went on to study in Paris, under Lucien Simon and Poulerauce.

Though Berlin was his home, he would frequently visit France, both to work and exhibit, and for a brief time, to teach printmaking. During his time in France he met and became friends with artists Georg Grosz and Jules Pascin; while teaching, he introduced techniques to artist Sonia Delauney, eventually helping launch her career in the art world.

A master of portraits, figures, land-and cityscapes, Grossmann began publishing his prints in 1905. Many major publishers in both Germany and France commissioned his work. His work is included in various collections and museums internationally.

Grossmann died in Breisgau, in 1941.

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Rudolf Großmann, or Grossmann, (1882-1941) grew up in a family of artists. He studied medicine and philosophy in Munich shortly after the turn of the century. Afterwards, he lived in Paris for five years, where he was a student of Lucien Simon and devoted himself to landscape painting.

From 1910 he was in Berlin and worked as a printmaker. He created book illustrations, but also portraits of celebrities, which, among others, appeared in the Simplicissimus. From 1928, he worked as a professor at the Art Academy in Berlin. At the time of National Socialism, he was suspended from his teaching position, and some of his works were confiscated. He emigrated to Freiburg. Grossmann was a member of the Berlin Secession and the Deutsche Künstlerbund.