Hitler Organizes an Exhibition Denouncing Modern Art
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Arts
- Subcategories: Artists, Artisans, Painting, Painters, Drawing, Dictatorships, Dictators, Tyrants, Censorship
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, German History
- Geographical Location: Germany
- Date: July 19-November 30, 1937
Article abstract: A display of modern art confiscated by the Nazis from German museums and labeled “degenerate” foreshadowed the later purging of artists by Adolf Hitler’s regime.
Summary of Event
The Degenerate Art Exhibition was opened in Munich on July 19, 1937, by Adolf Ziegler, the president of the Reich Chamber of Visual Arts, one day after Adolf Hitler had dedicated the city’s House of German Art and the first of eight official “Great German Art Exhibitions.” Speaking in the city where the Nazi movement was born and shortly before the...
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