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Hunting down modernism. The prohibited arts in the Third Reich
Tematyka: Art – albums
Data wydania: 2011
Format: 27,5 x 24 cm
Oprawa:
Objętość: 416
ISBN: 978-83-89273-91-8
Description
Tha album accompanies the exhibition Hunting down modernism. The prohibited arts in the Third Reich.
With Adolf Hitler’s assumption of the office of German chancellor, the year 1933 opened up a new, ignominious and painful chapter in German history. Hitler’s vision held no room for independently thinking avant-garde painters, printmakers, poets, writers and composers. This unique exhibition – a joint project of the International Cultural Centre and Landschaftsverband Rheinland – presents works categorised by the Nazis as entartete Kunst (degenerate art).
The artists whose work is displayed here – among whom are outstanding personalities such as Emil Nolde, Otto Freundlich, Rudolf Belling, Anna Seghers and Lion Feuchtwanger, but also the forgotten Carl Rabus, Valentin Nagel, Julius Graumann and Irmgard Keun, were persecuted for their innovative artistic expression, their racial identity, and their political views. The “Polish annexe” that rounds off the exhibition, with works by Karol Hiller, Jankiel Adler, Władysław Strzemiński, Katarzyna Kobro, Jan Rubczak and Bruno Schulz, throws light on the tragic situation of Polish artists, who with the outbreak of World War II suddenly found themselves within the sphere of Nazi “cultural policy”.
