[1] Von Groschwitz was born on April 16, 1906, in New York City.
from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts in 1949 with a thesis titled "The Original Lithograph in Color in the XIXth Century.
[2][3] He was appointed curator of prints at Wesleyan University in 1938, and curator of prints of Cincinnati Art Museum in 1947, concurrently serving as an adjunct faculty member of the University of Cincinnati.
He was made chief curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum and organized six international biennales of lithography.
[7][8][9] In 1968, he joined the faculty of the University of Iowa, where he was associate director of the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, before retiring in 1974.