There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the ...
Like its precursor, it was called “Degenerate Art.” It opened in Munich on July 19, 1937, and presented around 700 works (selected from the thousands that had already been removed from German ...
A new exhibition on the “degenerate” art disavowed by the Nazis has opened in Paris. ‘L’art dégénéré’ is now on at the Musée ...
The Trump administration is slashing funds for museums and libraries, as a way to coerce these and other liberal arts ...
It was a far cry from the mid-’30s, when his sculptures, seized by the state, toured Germany as warning examples of what Adolf Hitler considered “degenerate” art. But the retrospective show ...
The Weimar period had seen a flourishing of German art, much of which was abstract. Hitler saw this modern art as 'degenerate' and over 6,500 works of art were removed from display across Germany.
speech at the opening of the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler, and another architect with construction plans and models of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds circa 1934 ...
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, led a campaign against art which he defined as degenerate and not fit for the German public. This included abstract art, cubist art and work by ...
Despite being a staunch supporter of Nazi Germany, Nolde found his modernist paintings condemned by Adolf Hitler as “degenerate art” and 1,052 of his works were removed from museums.
At the forefront of the expo is an examination of the ‘Entartete Kunst’ (degenerate art) exhibition that ran in Munich in 1937 showing more than 600 works by artists persecuted by the Nazis. Related ...