Background
Artur Grunenberg was born in in Könisberg, studied in Berlin and Munich. An oil painter as
well as book illustrator, he gravitated toward moving subjects, especially dancers. His
illustrated books, not well known in the United States, include editions of Horace,
Boccacio, Prevost (Manon Lescaut). By some historians, he is considered a member of the
German expressionists