Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of...
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The Degenerate Art exhibition (German: Die Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst") was an art exhibition organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich...
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In 1939 the Gallery Fischer in Lucerne organized an auction of "degenerate" art confiscated by the Nazis. The auction took place on 30 June 1939 in the...
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Der Neue Mensch (section Degenerate art)
particularly those influenced by primitivism, were considered Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) by the Nazi regime, and Freundlich's sculpture was withdrawn from display...
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Reich Chamber of Culture (section Degenerate art)
millions (perhaps largely because entrance was free), and the so-called degenerate art may have been more popular with the public than the Nazis anticipated...
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Nazi architecture (section Degenerate Art)
Party held two art exhibitions in Munich. The Great German Art Exhibition displayed works that Hitler approved of, while the Degenerate Art Exhibition showcased...
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Degeneracy (redirect from Degenerate)
band Trigger the Bloodshed Degenerate art, a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art Decadent movement, often associated...
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Self-Portrait as a Soldier (category Paintings in the Allen Memorial Art Museum)
"'Decent' vs. 'Degenerate' Art" Art Journal 50, no.4 (1991)89 Olaf Peters. "Fear and Propaganda: National Socialism and the Concept of 'Degenerate Art'" Social...
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Adolf Ziegler (category Race-related controversies in art)
the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of what the Party described as "degenerate art", by most of the German modern artists. He was Hitler's favourite painter...
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held that distorted and corrupted art was a symptom of an inferior race. By propagating the theory of degenerate art, the Nazis combined their anti-Semitism...
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showcase all the art they considered degenerate. Any art that was modern or abstract was considered degenerate. In addition to showcasing this art and labeling...
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government's concerns about degenerate music were a part of its larger and better-known campaign against degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst). In...
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Emil Nolde (section Degenerate art)
Hippler. However, Adolf Hitler rejected all forms of modernism as "degenerate art"; the Nazi regime officially condemned Nolde's work. Until that time...
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The Trench (Dix) (section Degenerate art)
confiscated and included in the exhibition of degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) held in Munich in 1937. It was sold to an art dealer in early 1940, but its fate is...
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The Eternal Jew (film) (section Degenerate art)
pictorial art and music have degenerated under Jewish influence, with many spurious examples given. Degenerate art included works of abstract art as well...
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En Canot (category Ships in art)
It was later confiscated by the Nazis around 1936, displayed at the Degenerate Art Exhibition (Entartete Kunst) in Munich and other cities, 1937–38, and...
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Degenerate Art: The Art and Culture of Glass Pipes is a 2012 documentary by American pipe maker Aaron Golbert, aka Marble Slinger, on the art and culture...
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January 1992 in Bogotá) was one of Hitler's Nazi art dealers specialized in selling looted "Degenerate Art". Buchholz took his first job in Berlin, where...
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Verdun. In the 1930s, the Nazis named him a degenerate artist as part of their suppression of modern art. However, most of his work survived World War...
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Paula Modersohn-Becker (section "Degenerate Art")
Hitler, the street's buildings were allowed to remain as a monument of "degenerate art". But despite the survival of the architectural fabric of her museum...
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Social degeneration (redirect from Degenerate (humans))
Nazi attack on western liberal society was largely couched in terms of degenerate art with its associations of racial miscegenation and fantasies of racial...
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Dada (redirect from Art is shit)
death camps under Adolf Hitler, who actively persecuted the kind of "degenerate art" that he considered Dada to represent. The movement became less active...
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Bauhaus was closed. In 1937 an exhibition of degenerate art, 'Entartete Kunst' contained all types of avant-garde art disapproved of by the Nazi party. Then...
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Degenerate Art Ensemble (often abbreviated DAE) is a Seattle-based multi-art performance company whose work is inspired by punk, comics, cinema, nightmares...
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Contemporary Art, Strasbourg Musée d'art moderne de Troyes Berggruen Museum, Berlin Degenerate Art exhibition, a touring exhibition of modern art held in Nazi...
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Samson Schames (section Works confiscated from public collections as part of the 1937 campaign against "Degenerate Art")
confiscated from public collections as part of the Nazi campaign against "Degenerate Art" . Due to the increasing persecution of Jews by the Nazis, Schames left...
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Nazi plunder (redirect from Nazi art theft)
particularly those of Germanic origin. Modern art was dubbed degenerate art by the Third Reich. All such art found in Germany's state museums was sold or...
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art that should be eliminated (“The Degenerate Art Exhibition”), while the other promoted, by contrast, the official aesthetic (“The Great German Art...
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exhibition of "pure" art, Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, also conceived of a Degenerate Art Exhibition, which...
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Hildebrand Gurlitt (category German art historians)
German art historian and art gallery director who dealt in Nazi-looted art as one of Hitler's and Goering's four authorized dealers for "degenerate art". A...
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