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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 ...
The Degenerate Art exhibition (German: Die Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst") was an art exhibition organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich from 19 July to 30 November 1937. The exhibition presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition . [ 1 ]
These became the material for a defamatory exhibit, Entartete Kunst ("Degenerate Art"), featuring over 650 paintings, sculptures, prints, and books from the collections of thirty-two German museums, that premiered in Munich on July 19, 1937, and remained on view until November 30 before travelling to eleven other cities in Germany and Austria ...
In 1937, Nazi Germany under Hitler condemned modern art as "degenerate" (not fitting to be called art in Hitler's view) and confiscated it from museums all over Germany. A travelling Degenerate Art Exhibition was set up where some of these pieces were displayed to the public to show their so-called "degenerate" nature. The Nazis set up a system ...
After the Nazis confiscated thousands of artworks classified as degenerate art from the German Museums, they sought to monetize them. Four art dealers were authorized to sell degenerate art by Germany: Karl Buchholtz and Ferdinand Möller from Berlin, Bernhard A. Böhmer [] from Güstrow and Hildebrand Gurlitt from Hamburg. [3]
Arno Breker (19 July 1900 – 13 February 1991) was a German sculptor who is best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, where he was endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art. He was made official state sculptor, and exempted from military service. [1]
When the Nazis attacked modern art as “Degenerate Art”, Karl Buchholz was commissioned from 1938 together with Ferdinand Möller, Hildebrand Gurlitt and Bernhard A. Böhmer by Goebbels's Reich Ministry of People's Enlightenment and Propaganda to sell the confiscated works of art to raise cash for the Third Reich.
In addition to physical exhibits, the exhibition also featured a digital terminal. This interactive display explored the inventory of 'degenerate' art, a term used by the Nazi regime for artworks they removed from German museums beginning in 1937.