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The Nazi regime in Germany actively promoted and censored forms of art between 1933 and 1945. Upon becoming dictator in 1933, Adolf Hitler gave his personal artistic preference the force of law to a degree rarely known before.
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 ...
Editor, with introduction. A Hegel Symposium. Austin: U. of Texas, 1962; introduction, pp. 3–7; German Graphics of the Sixties: Catalogue of the Exhibition, February -March 1971, UT Art Museum (translated Introduction by Juliane Roh and compiled short biographies of the artists) Reconciliation in the Work of Stefan Andres. Studies in ...
A pair of headstones marking the graves of two Nazis from WWII have been removed from a Texas cemetery and replaced with ones that have not been emblazoned with swastikas. The pair of markers at ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear Germany's bid to block it from facing a lawsuit in American court over medieval artwork that its former Nazi government pressured Jewish art ...
The 2005 German language film Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, depicts the show trials the Nazi-controlled legal system used against dissident intellectuals like the White Rose student movement, who non-violently resisted government censorship laws by writing and distributing leaflets critical of Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology.
The conference was hosted by the United States Department of State and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [2] It assembled participants from a 1995 New York symposium, The Spoils of War—World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property, along with others, [2] and built on the Nazi Gold conference which had been held in London in December 1997.
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...