Degenerate Art exhibition
1937 art exhibition in Nazi Germany
Degenerate Art exhibition
The Degenerate Art exhibition (German: Die Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst") was an art exhibition organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich from 19 July to 30 November 1937. The exhibition presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition. The day before the exhibition started, Adolf Hitler delivered a speech declaring "merciless war" on cultural disintegration, attacking "chatterboxes, dilettantes and art swindlers". Degenerate art was defined as works that "insult German feeling, or destroy or confuse natural form or simply reveal an absence of adequate manual and artistic skill". Entry was free. One million people attended the exhibition in its first six weeks, and another two million in the remaining six months in Munich. Another million saw the exhibition on tour. According to Frederic Spotts, it was "the biggest blockbuster art show of all time." A U.S. critic commented that "[t]here...
Read on Wikipedia · Image Front cover of the guide for the "Degenerate Art Exhibition" (Entartete Kunst Ausstellung), a propaganda show organized by the Nazi Party 1937. The sculpture in the cover photo is "Der neue Mensch" (…, CC BY-SA 4.0
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