Ernst Barlach
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Ernst Heinrich Barlach was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the confl
Ernst Barlach in the 1890s
The Avenger, 1914, National Gallery of Art
![The Magdeburger Ehrenmal [de] (Magdeburg commemorative sculpture) (1929), which created a large controversy about Barlach's anti-war position (Magdebu](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Barlach_Magdeburger_Ehrenmal.jpg/500px-Barlach_Magdeburger_Ehrenmal.jpg)
The Magdeburger Ehrenmal [de] (Magdeburg commemorative sculpture) (1929), which created a large controversy about Barlach's anti-war position (Magdeburg Cathedral)
Schwebender Engel or Güstrower Ehrenmal by Ernst Barlach, hanging in Güstrow Cathedral
Degenerate art
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Degenerate art was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of international
Ernst Barlach
…for his sculptures protesting against it. This created many conflicts during the rise of the Nazi Party, when most of his works were confiscated as degenerate art. Stylistically, his literary and artistic work would fall between the categories of twentieth-century Realism and Expressionism. Barlach was born in…
Joseph Goebbels views the Degenerate Art Exhibition (1937).
A still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Albert Gleizes, 1912, Landschaft bei Paris, Paysage près de Paris, Paysage de Courbevoie, missing from Hannover since 1937