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11.	Degenerate Art: Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s Large Kneeling Woman (1937) The admonition “They had four years’ time” [“Sie hatten vier Jahre Zeit”] appears on the wall of the gallery featured below. It is presumably an indictment of every “degenerate” artist featured in....
12.	Storage Room in Niederschönhausen Castle for Confiscated Works of Degenerate Art, including Works by Pablo Picasso and Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1937) All art that did not correspond to the National Socialist aesthetic was deemed "degenerate." The category included modern and avant-garde works by the Expressionists, Impressionists, Surrealists,....
13.	Storage Room in Niederschönhausen Castle for Confiscated Works of Degenerate Art, including Works by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Paul Gauguin (1937) All art that did not correspond to the National Socialist aesthetic was considered "degenerate." This expansive category included modern and avant-garde works by the Expressionists, Impressionists,....
14.	Sculpture by Joseph Thorak on the Berlin Reich Sports Field (1937) The monumental sculptures created by Joseph Thorak and Arno Breker for the "Reich Sports Field" (Olympic Stadium) in Berlin are now synonymous with the bombastic, sterile aesthetics of the Third....
15.	"Degenerate Music": Title Page of the Exhibition Guide (1938) As with the visual arts, the Nazis aimed to demonstrate the difference between good “German“ music and “degenerate“ music by staging major cultural events. To this end, they organized the Reichsmusiktage....
16.	Hitler and his Entourage view the Second "Great German Art Exhibition" (July 10, 1938) Every year from 1937 to 1944, the House of German Art in Munich hosted a so-called Great German Art Exhibition to highlight art that embodied the National Social aesthetic and world view. The photograph....
17.	Second "Great German Art Exhibition": View of the Galleries in the House of German Art (July 10, 1938) Every year from 1937 to 1944, the House of German Art in Munich hosted a so-called Great German Art Exhibition to highlight art that embodied the National Social aesthetic and world view. Invariably,....
18.	Hitler Applauding at a Performance Conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler at the Berlin Philharmonic (1939) During the Weimar Republic, Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954) had established himself as one of Germany’s most successful and internationally known conductors. Courted by the National Socialists, Furtwängler....
19.	Leni Riefenstahl with the 14th Army Corps in Poland (September 1939) On September 10, 1939, shortly after the invasion of Poland, Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) was at the....
20.	Working Maidens, Painting by Leopold Schmutzler (1940) Nazi art policy reflected the regime's "blood and soil" ideology: scenes depicting the hard but "honorable" life of workers and peasants were among the regime's preferred pictorial motifs. This painting....
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