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Otto Griebel -  "The Internationale" - circa 1929.

Otto Griebel - "Factory Workers on Their Way Home" - circa 1922. Watercolor over pencil on smooth wove paper. Hard Times: Germany 1920s – 1930s - Series

Otto Griebel - "Hippodrome in St. Pauli" - circa 1923.

Otto Griebel was a German artist who was born in 1895. He was the co-founder of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany & the New Dresden Secession.

Otto Griebel - Self Portrait

In 1920, he founded together with the musician Otto Kunze a puppet theatre (glove puppets) in Dresden. Its repertoire included a puppet cabaret, an adaptation of Faust and of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin entitled Der Lohntütengrien. Besides political satire, he cultivated “nonsense”, for which, as a former Dadaist, he had an affinity. The verses of his friend, Joachim Ringelnatz provided material for this part of the program.

In 1933, he was arrested by the Gestapo and his paintings were branded as degenerate art.

His painting (below) "Child at a Table" branded as degenerate art, was one of the artworks found in the 2012 Munich artworks discovery (Munich Art Hoard).

Degenerate Art also was the title of a 1937 exhibition held by the Nazis in Munich, consisting of 650 modernist artworks that the Nazis had taken from museums, that were poorly hung alongside graffiti and text labels mocking the art and the artists.

Joseph Goebbels views the Degenerate Art Exhibition.

The collection of "Degenerate Art" contained Old Masters as well as Impressionist, Cubist, and Expressionist paintings, drawings and prints by artists including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Franz Marc, Marc Chagall, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Otto Dix, Edvard Munch, Gustave Courbet, Max Liebermann, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee, among many others.

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Otto Griebel (German, 1895-1972), Hippodrome in St. Pauli, 1923. Watercolour and pencil on vellum paper, 34.8 x 48 cm.

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