The Great German Art and the Degenerate Exhibitions
Program announcing the 1940 Grosse deutsche Kunstausstellung (Great German Art Exhibit 1937-1944) in the Munchen House of German Art featuring the works of contemporary German artists such as Georg Siebert (“Meine Kameraden in Polen”, My Comrades in Poland 1939), Franz Eichhorst (“Polenkämpfer”, Polish Fighters), Arno Breker (“Kameraden”, Comrades), and Wilhelm Sauter (“Der ewige Musketier”, The eternal Musketeer). Works highlighting themes of war and camaraderie in battle, are presented alongside pastoral scenes such as Ivo Saliger's “Die Rast der Diana” (Diana's Rest), and Oskar Martin Amorbach's “Bauerngrazie” (Farmer Grace).
Issue no. 10 of Our Age: Germany and You (October 1942), printed and published in Germany in the English language by Wiking-Verlag GmbH., Berlin. Surveying works featured in the Grosse deutsche Kunstausstellung (Great German Art Exhibit, Munich, 1942).
Photographs from the exhibition Das Schicksal der Avantgarde im Nazi-Deutschland (The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany), a traveling exhibition from the LA County Museum of Art, in the German Historical Museum, March-May 1992. The exhibition documents the famous exhibit “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art), which was initiated by Joseph Goebbels and took place in 1937 in Munich. Photographs include: A cover page of the original exhibition's catalogue, the crowd at the entrance to the
exhibit in 1937, installation photo of the exhibit, cover of a book titled “Degenerate Music: an Account” by Hans Severus Ziegler, published in Düsseldorf, 1938.
