On July 19, 1937, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party opened a propogandist Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, Germany. The gallery was filled with modern art, trussed up and defaced with mocking captions—a ...
DÜSSELDORF, Germany — There is an intimate portrait of a lesbian couple, a painting of young naked men enjoying themselves by the water and one of a flamboyantly dressed, androgynously looking person ...
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The year 1937 is haunting the culture news just now. That is, the “Degenerate Art Show” comes up a lot. “It’s classic ‘degenerate art’ stuff,” I hear someone say, shaking their head, referring to ...
The “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945” exhibition, which is debuting in Fort Worth ahead of a nationwide tour, traces the development of German modern art over the span of three decades ...
IN the first half of the 20th century, German art was crushed and twisted by two wars and artistically ignorant totalitarianism. Some of Germany’s artists succumbed to Hitler’s demands, some lost ...
Celebrate the opening of Always Modern, which explores the sensibility of exceptional works of modern German art and design from the Museum’s renowned collection. Works on view span from 1880 to the ...
When Martha Kearns wrote the first English-language biography of the German artist Kaethe Kollwitz, she felt like she was alone. “So many people I talked to didn’t know who she was, this woman who was ...
Lyonel Feininger is one of those artists whose names evoke one kind of painting, and one only. Translucent planes carving up space like glass knives, suggesting churches, ice caves or winter seas–in ...
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