Entartete Kunst
Goebbels at the Berlin Entartete Kunst Exhibition 1937
Entartete Kunst (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 was banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was un-German, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions.
Degenerate Art also was the title of an exhibition, held by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of 650 modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art.
While modern styles of art were prohibited, the Nazis promoted paintings and sculptures that were traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience.
During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art was banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was un-German, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions.
Degenerate Art also was the title of an exhibition, held by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of 650 modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art.
While modern styles of art were prohibited, the Nazis promoted paintings and sculptures that were traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience.
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