Title |
Room 3 of Degenerate Art Exhibition, Munich |
Style Period |
20th Century Art; Modern Art |
Description |
text on wall reads: "It is not Bolshevist art collectors or their literary henchmen who have laid the foundations for the existence of a new art or safeguarded the survival of art in Germany, but we, to whom this state owes its life... We shall now wage inexorable war to eliminate the last elements of our cultural decay" (Adolf Hitler on German Art Day, 1937. Text taken from a speech at the opening of the Haus der Deutschen Kunst on July 18, 1937.) |
Subject |
Degenerate Art; Nazi Germany; Expressionism |
Creation Date |
1937 CE |
Form |
document photograph |
Medium |
gelatin silver print |
Classes |
ARTH 3010 Art and Conflict Module 9 - Degenerate Art - Art and Visual Culture in Nazi Germany |
Source |
Art of the Avant-Gardes. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004. pg.55, plate 2.4. |
Work ID |
7789 |
Rights |
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6cp0dxw |
Setname |
uu_aah_art |
ID |
28709 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cp0dxw |