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During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling", un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists ...
Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-4607-4; Thoms, Robert: The Artists in the Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937–1944, Volume I – painting and printing. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8.
All innovation in art starting with Impressionism, especially Cubism and Expressionism, were ruled degenerate art and banned by the Ministry. All works by composers of popular or Classical music with Jewish ancestry like Mendelssohn, Mahler, and Schoenberg were banned as degenerate music. [6]
Griepenkerl was born to one of Oldenburg's leading families. As a young man, he heeded the advice of his fellow countryman, the landscapist Ernst Willers, [1] and went to Vienna in late 1855 in order to enroll at the private art school for the monumental paintings founded four years earlier by Carl Rahl.
Missing for 80 years and thought lost, a painting banned by the Nazis has sold for almost £6m (€7m) at auction. Only seen before in black-and-white photos taken by the artist themself, Tanz im ...
A stroll of a bit over 3 miles takes you past numerous landmarks of our city's past, writes Patrick Muller. Introducing the Kirkwood Shimek Loop: A walking tour of Iowa City school history Skip to ...
Nazi Gold and Art – Hitler's Third Reich in the News Archived 19 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine; Project for the Documentation of Wartime Cultural Losses – Website of the Cultural Property Research Foundation, Inc. Article The DIA does the Right Thing; The Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933–1945
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