Anna Koppitz
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Anna Koppitz was a mid-century Austrian photographer.
Rudolf Koppitz (c.1930) Anna Koppitz, Pigment print, 29.9 x 24.5 cm
Rudolf and Anna Koppitz (1923) In the Arms of Nature, Multicolour gum bichromate, printed 1923
Richard Walther Darré
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Richard Walther Darré was one of the leading Nazi "blood and soil" ideologists and served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture. As the National leader for agricultural policy, he was a high-ranki
Anna Koppitz
…Anna's sympathies however were compromised when she agreed, in writing that has been preserved, to make Nazi propaganda for Minister of Agriculture R. Walther Darré. Believing Rudolf to be still alive, he wrote to the couple's studio to commission him, since the symbolically charged peasant pictures had been noticed…
Bundesarchiv Bild 119 2179, Walter Richard Darré
"The peasantry is the life source of the people", quote by Darré printed on the wall newspaper Wochenspruch der NSDAP of 8 October 1940
Darré speaking at a Reich Food Society (Reichsnährstand) assembly under the slogan Blut und Boden, Blood and soil, in Goslar, 1937