Magdeburger ehrenmal hitler biography
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Degenerate art
Pejorative term used by the Nazi Party for modern art
Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling", un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions that included being dismissed from teaching positions, being forbidden to exhibit or to sell their art, and in some cases being forbidden to produce art.
Degenerate Art also was the title of a exhibition held by the Nazis in Munich, consisting of modernist artworks that the Nazis had taken from museums, that were poorly hung alongside graffiti and text labels mocking the art and the artists.[1] Designed
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Ernst Barlach
German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer (–)
Ernst Heinrich Barlach (2 January – 24 October ) was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War inom, his participation in the conflict made him change his position, and he is mostly known for his sculptures protesting against the war. This created many conflicts during the rise of the Nazi Party, when most of his works were confiscated as degenerate art. Stylistically, his literary and artistic work would fall between the categories of twentieth-century Realism and Expressionism.
Biography
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[edit]Barlach was born in Wedel, Holstein, Kingdom of Prussia, the oldest of the four sons of Johanna Luise Barlach (née Vollert, –) and the physician Dr. Georg Barlach (–). His early childhood was spent in Schönberg (Mecklenburg), where his father had practiced since In the fall of , the family moved to Ra
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Degenerate Art was a term adopted in the s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art.
During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an &#;insult to German feeling&#;, un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature.
Hitler&#;s rise to power in was quickly followed by actions intended to cleanse the culture of degeneracy: book burnings were organized, artists and musicians were dismissed from teaching positions, and curators who had shown a partiality for modern art were replaced by Party members.
Those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions that included being dismissed from teaching positions, being forbidden to