Dear Diane and Shaded Viewers,
The term Entartete Kunst (in English degenerate art) first rose to prominence through a special exhibition entitled "Great German Art Exhibition", staged in Munich in 1937 by the National Socialist Regime in an attempt to excoriate modern art genres such as Expressionism, Cubism and Bauhaus.
The "Degenerate Art" show at Neue Galerie, curated by Dr. Olaf Peters, not only compares controversial pieces from said exhibition such as Paul Klee’s The Angler and Max Beckmann’s Cattle in a Barn with officially sanctioned art of the time, but also displays the "Entartete Kunst" typescript, a 482-page inventory of all seized artwork compiled between 1941 and 1942 by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
Later,
Carla
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