Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-garde in Nazi GermanyExamines the 1937 Nazi-arranged exhibition "Degenerate Art," comprised of 650 avante-garde artworks stripped from German museums. Includes essays, a diagrammed catalogue of the exhibition, artist biographies, a translated facsimile of the exhibition guide, and other reference resources, accompanied by reprints of the artworks and photos of the exhibition itself. |
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Foreword | 6 |
Beauty without SensualityThe Exhibition Entartete Kunst | 25 |
A Reconstruction | 45 |
Copyright | |
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1937 Fischer lot Akademie artists auction Barlach Basel Bauhaus Beckmann Berlin Berlin Room G2 bildenden Künste Bildnis Buchholz Catalogue raisonné Cologne confiscated in 1937 cultural degenerate art dimensions unknown Acquired director Dresden Düsseldorf Emil Nolde Entartete Kunst Entartete Kunst exhibition Ernst Ernst Barlach Expressionist Feininger Figure film Frankfurt Franz German art Goebbels Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung Grosz Gurlitt Hamburg Hannover Heckel Hitler Hofer Jewish Joseph Goebbels July Kandinsky Karl Kirchner Kokoschka Kunsthalle Mannheim Künstler Kupferstichkabinett Lehmbruck lithograph Location unknown Ludwig Lyonel Feininger Marc medium unknown modern art Molzahn Munich Museum Folkwang Museum für Kunst National Socialist Nationalgalerie Nazi Neue Nolde November NS inventory Oil on canvas Oskar Schlemmer Otto Otto Dix paintings Paul Klee Pechstein portfolio Portrait private collection Propagandaministerium Robert Gore Rifkind Schlesisches Museum Schmidt-Rottluff sculpture sold for SF Staatliche Staatsgalerie Städtische Galerie Städtisches Museum Stadtmuseum Dresden Room Sturm Stuttgart Watercolor Weimar Woodcut ZA/NGA