Room 3 of Degenerate Art Exhibition, Munich

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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
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