Werner Peiner was a German painter. He was first influenced by realism, and later by New Objectivity. He was known as one of the official painters of the Third Reich due to the favour he received from
Werner Peiner (1942)
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 d
Werner Peiner
…Empire Died 19 August 1984 (aged 87) Leichlingen, West Germany Occupation Painter Known for Painting Movement Realism, New Objectivity, Blood and Soil, Nazi art Patrons Hermann Göring Werner Peiner (20 July 1897 - 19 August 1984) was a German painter. He was first influenced by realism, and later by New…
Nude statues of the ideal female and male bodies, installed in the streets of Berlin on the occasion of the 1936 Summer Olympics. Berlin won the bid in April 1931, two years before the NSDAP came to power. It was the last time the International Olympic Committee gathered to vote in a city that was bidding.
Ausstellung Deutsche Grafik im Kunstsalon Wolfsberg by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Front cover of the guide for the "Degenerate Art Exhibition", 1937. The word "Kunst," meaning art, is in scare quotes; the artwork is Otto Freundlich's sculpture Der Neue Mensch.
Haus der Deutschen Kunst (House of German Art) in Munich. Built in 1933–1937 and designed by Paul Ludwig Troost, with considerable input from Hitler, the Haus was one of the first monumental structures built during the Nazi era.