#degenerate art

[dailyhistoryposts]

Several Circles (1926) by Vassily Kandinsky. Oil on canvas.

#history #art history #kandinsky #degenerate art #russia #russian art

[oliverscarlin]

Gerhard Marcks - Sitzender Athlet (1965)

#gerhard marcks #degenerate art #german art #sculpture #bauhaus #art history

[pagansphinx]

Anita Rée (German, 1885–1933) • Vision of St. Anthony at Padua • 1930

#art #painting #fine art #art history #woman artist #anita rée #german artist #german avant-garde #oil painting #weimar #20th century european art #degenerate art #pagan sphinx art blog #art blog #portrait #art nude #art appreciation

[geritsel]

George Grosz - Punishment (Strafe), watercolor, 1934.

#german expressionism #neue sachlichkeit #new objectivity #war #bombing #entartete kunst #degenerate art

[pazzesco]

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.

#art #paintings #mixed media #Munich Art Hoard #degenerate art #facism #Otto Griebel #watercolor #Child at a Table #portraits #Hippodrome in St. Pauli #Factory Workers on Their Way Home #the internationale

[argyrocratie]

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The Degenerate “Art” show — the work of the Third Reich’s Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda’s Chamber of Fine Arts — was one of the numerous efforts of the Nazi state to purify Germany of any remnants of modernist Weimar culture by mockingly displaying more than seven hundred modern paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture as a freak show of dangerous ideas and images. The organizers designed the didactic exhibition to illustrate the pathological links between modernism, mental illness, and biological imperfection; sneering propagandistic wall texts and object labels festooned the halls and relentlessly accused the work of artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kurt Schwitters, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Raoul Hausmann, Max Beckmann, and many others as crimes against culture, race, capitalism, sanity, and homeland security. In case anyone missed the point, docents well-versed in Nazi doctrine were on hand to police visitors’ opinions; professional actors who had been carefully rehearsed by the government went undercover among the crowds to play the role of ordinary citizens who would suddenly explode into furious indignation while looking at the works by these traitors to bourgeois German respectability and morality.

The German title of the exhibition (Entartete “Kunst”) warrants closer examination for the discussion that follows. Entartete was the term specifically used by the exhibition’s organizers in order to attach their cultural program to the Nazis’ obsession with racial hygiene, since the word is loaded with biomedical connotations commonly associated with organisms whose characteristics or structures have become so degraded or otherwise altered that the specimen has been pushed to the far margins of what defines its species. The Nazis’ use of scare quotes around kunst is meant to indicate that this is not art in any meaningful or accepted use of the term, but is instead a pathetic and shoddy effort to imitate the lofty category of high aesthetic expression. To underscore the message that the paintings, sculptures, and books created by these Expressionists, Cubists, and Dadaists were nothing more than sick scribbles and smears made by subhuman throwbacks (Jews, communists, perverts, and mental defectives), the Entartete “Kunst” show opened in Munich’s Institute of Archaeology, a venue where one usually found the crude works of the long-dead or stagnant societies of non-Aryan primitives.

Here, then, was an immediate and well-reported case of what Breton and Trotsky had identified in “For an Independent Revolutionary Art” as the “reactionary persecution” of free thought and expression. The Nazis had institutionalized their violence against the modernist imagination with the Degenerate “Art” exposition and linked it to their systematic assaults on beings that they considered to be substandard life-forms. Bureaucratically determined definitions of biological, political, and moral inferiority were used to measure the worth of ideas, images, and art, and this was precisely the sort of censorship and cultural conformity that the Breton-Trotsky statement had denounced. This is why the Egyptian “Long Live Degenerate Art!” pronouncement of December 1938 is a key precursor to the organized Art and Liberty activities formally launched by the Cairo surrealists a month later.

“In Vienna, which has now been abandoned to these barbarians, a painting by Renoir has been torn into pieces and books by Freud have been burnt in the public squares,” declares the statement. “Works by great German artists…have been confiscated and replaced by worthless National Socialist art,” while “in Rome, a committee recently has been formed ‘for the purification of literature.’ It has taken up its duties and has decided to withdraw everything that is anti-Italian, anti-racialist, immoral, and depressing.” The Egyptian manifesto goes on to assert that it is impossible for creativity to exist when it is forced to serve the coercive, politically-correct “artificial limitations” stipulated by party ideologues and other state watchdogs of moral decency. The proclamation concludes: “We must stand in solidarity in the ranks of Degenerate Art, for it is our only hope for the future. Let us work to support Degenerate Art so that it will prevail against those trying to resurrect a new Middle Ages within the heart of the West.” More than forty signatures closed out the statement, including those of surrealists (Henein, el-Telmissany, the Kamil brothers), future Art and Liberty partisans (Scalet, Kamil Walim, Marcelle Biagini, Albert Cossery, Aristomenis Angelopoulos, Angelo de Riz, Hassia, Laurent Marcel Salinas, Seif Wanly), journalists, and a number of lawyers from Cairo and Alexandria. In its original published format, the declaration was illustrated with a black-and-white reproduction of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937), an astonishing painted account of a Nazi-engineered atrocity in the Spanish Civil War.

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#surrealism #degenerate art #Egypt #don lacoss

[bishopsbox]

source: @degenerarts (a Tumblr about the so-called degenerate art).

Christian Schad, Fräulein Mulino von Kluck (1930)

#1930 #christian schad #degenerate art

[sketchgoat]

Trying to censor these just made them look ridiculous, so screw it here we go.

I’m not Egon Schiele, but he did say this, and his art was labeled degenerate by the nazis, a term modern fascists also love:

Even the erotic work of art is sacred

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #digital painting #drawing #procreate #portrait #degenerate art #neon colors #linework #trippy #digital art

[atlastcompelled54]

Death of Poet, Walter Rheiner Conrad Felixmüller, Oil on Canvas 1925

#one of my favorite paintings #art #expressionism #german expressionism #conrad felixmuller #walter rheiner #dresden #weimar #degenerate art

[jadwiga-abremovic]

Terfs in art history tags like " Oh teehee but degenerate art is the perfect word for art that men made who watch porn and trans art and art with too many sad people and peepees in it and weird blocky colours"

Bruh, that's a term that got people slaughtered in the holocaust!!!

Can you just....for once in your miserable godforsaken lives...shut the fuck up?

#antisemitism #degenerate art #antifaschismus #terfs dni #lgbt #trans rights

[victusinveritas]

Blind Power - Rudolf Schlichter, 1937.

#rudolf schlichter #art #1930s #neue sachlichkeit #degenerate art

[hauntedbystorytelling]

(above) Das Ausstellungsgebäude "Entartete Kunst" in Berlin, 1938

The "Degenerate Art" exhibition, initiated by Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels and directed by Adolf Ziegler, President of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts, opened in Munich on July 19, 1937. It showed 650 confiscated works of art from 32 German museums. Over three million people visited this exhibition, which was shown in twelve other cities by April 1941. Works of art and cultural currents that were not in harmony with the National Socialists' understanding of art and ideals of beauty - Expressionism, Impressionism, Dadaism, New Objectivity, Surrealism, Cubism or Fauvism - were considered "degenerate", "sick" or "Jewish-Bolshevist". These works were presented with photos of deformed people to evoke disgust and trepidation in visitors. At the same time, the Munich "House of German Art" showed the "Great German Art Exhibition" with "German" art.

(below) Führer zur Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst". Verlag für Kultur und Wirtschaftswerbung; Berlin, 1937

Guide to the exhibition "Degenerate Art" Title picture based on the sculpture 'The New Man' by Otto Freundlich

Works of art and cultural currents that were not in harmony with the National Socialists' understanding of art and ideals of beauty [Expressionism, Impressionism, Dadaism, New Objectivity, Surrealism, Cubism or Fauvism] were considered "degenerate", "sick" or "Jewish-Bolshevist". These works were presented with photos of deformed people to evoke disgust and anxiety in visitors. At the same time, the Munich House of "German Art" showed the "Great German Art Exhibition" with "German" art. | Lebendiges Museum online

#degenerate art #Entartete Kunst #1930s #nazism #nazi party #censorship #kunst #art #art history #history of art

[oliverscarlin]

Gerhard Marcks - Walking Cat (Kater Schwarzmann) (1977)

#Gerhard Marcks #art history #contemporary art #sculpture #bronze sculpture #degenerate art #cats of tumblr

[pagansphinx]

Albert Birkle (German, 1900-1996) • Woman in an Open Car • 1925

#art #painting #fine art #art history #albert birkle #german artist #degenerate art #oil painting #women in paintings #early 20th century european art #weimar republic #pagan sphinx art blog #art blogs on tumblr #art lovers on tumblr

[geritsel]

Max Beckmann - The Sea Lions, painted in 1950, the year of his death.

#german expressinism #entartete kunst #degenerate art #art in nazi germany #kunstmuseum #haags gemeentemuseum

[nofatclips-home]

Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany - via @flommus

#nazi #art #fascism #history #art history #avant garde #david grubin #degenerate art #entartete kunst #that didn't age well