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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 ]
"Degenerate Art", article from A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust; Nazis Looted Europe's Great Art; Victoria and Albert Museum Entartete Kunst, Volume 1 and 2 Complete inventory of artworks confiscated by the Nazi regime from public institutions in Germany, 1937–1938; Video clip of the Degenerate art show
[citation needed] He was fired because his work was deemed unsuitable by the Nazis, with the result that several works were in the infamous exhibition of "degenerate art" in Munich in 1937, along with that of other Bauhaus artists, among them Herbert Bayer, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy ...
On July 19, 1937, he opened the exhibition and condemned those museum directors from whose collections the works came and their tolerance of the decadent art. However, his name must not be confused with that of Hans Severus Ziegler , who organized in May 1938 the Entartete Musik or Degenerate music exhibition in Düsseldorf.
He had a large number of paintings shown in the defamation exhibition of Degenerate Art, in 1937. [1] Nolde was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Culture in 1941 and banned from working. He later presented this incorrectly as a ban on painting. [ 2 ]
In 1937, 17 of his works were confiscated as part of the Nazi action against so-called Degenerate Art. [16] Some of his works were presented in the Degenerate Art propaganda exhibitions, and others were destroyed. At the beginning of 1938 Schlichter was temporarily removed from the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts, expelled, banned from exhibiting ...
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 ...
Another image, taken at the Degenerate Art Exhibition in 1937, shows En Canot next to Willi Baumeister, Handstand, 1923, oil on canvas, 117 cm × 79 cm (46 in × 31 in). [ 11 ] [ 12 ] A straightforward calculation based on the dimensions of paintings visible in both of these images reveals dimensions for En Canot of 146 cm × 114 cm (57 in × ...