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The Degenerate Art exhibition 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 fro
Cover of the exhibition program: Degenerate Art Exhibition, 1937. The word "Kunst," meaning art, is in scare quotes; the artwork is Otto Freundlich's sculpture Der Neue Mensch.
Entartete Kunst, Degenerate Art Exhibition catalogue, 1937, p. 23. Works from top left to lower right: * Johannes Molzahn, Der Gott der Flieger, 1921, oil on canvas. * Jean Metzinger, En Canot ("On the Beach"), 1913. * Kurt Schwitters, Merzbild, 1918–19, mixed media, 100 x 70 cm. * Johannes Molzahn, Familienbild
Goebbels views the Degenerate Art exhibition, with two paintings of Emil Nolde hanging to the left.
Jean Metzinger, 1913, En Canot (Im Boot), oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm, exhibited at Moderni Umeni, S.V.U. Mánes, Prague, 1914, acquired in 1916 by Georg Muche at the Galerie Der Sturm, confiscated by the Nazis c. 1936 from the Kronprinzenpalais, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, displayed at the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich, and missing ever since
The Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung was held a total of eight times from 1937 to 1944 in the purpose-built Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich. It was representative of art under Nazism.
Degenerate Art exhibition
…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. The day before the exhibition started, Adolf Hitler delivered a speech declaring "merciless war" on cultural disintegration, attacking "chatterboxes…
Adolf Hitler during his speech at the opening of the 1st Great German Art Exhibition 1937
The photo series was taken from a grandstand at Odeonsplatz (east side), diagonally opposite the "Führer-Tribüne" (seen here)
Flag bearers rode at the head of a 3 km long procession.
Es wirkten mit 26 Wagen, 5000 Kostüme, 450 Reiter