Analysis Of Degenerate Art: Attack On Modern Art In Nazi Germany

While death was the major tragedy of the Holocaust, all of the art stolen was definitely a dark spot. Most people don’t realize, but the art was taken from all Jews and many others by the Nazis. Some pieces of art have been found, but most still remain lost. Many that have been discovered are in museums and are not given to the true owners. There should be efforts spent on finding and recovering the art stolen by the Nazis to return it to their rightful owners.

INDENT Art has various meanings, depending on how each person interprets it. It gave hope for many Jewish artists. ADD MORE BACKGROUND INFO (2 SENTENCES). In the 1900’s, artists like Dora Schaul, Amalie Seckbach, and Esther Lurie were living through a rough time in their lives during the Holocaust.

His early years were spent in search of a reliable mentor with the ability of approving and guiding him. Unfortunately, he did not succeed in finding such master. He became maladjusted, searching for people with perfection. Many times he would find some individuals who could be categorized as perfect, in his eyes, and they would automatically be worshiped by Hitler and set on a throne. However, as soon as a flaw was noticed, Hitler, with great disappointment would treat them in an unpleasing and insignificant manner.

Let me paint you a picture but this picture won't be petty in fact this won't be painted with paints but with the blood of the Jewish people, and the artist Adolf Hitler. This man didn't live to finish his painting for he died April 30, 1945. Hitler titled his painting the holocaust. Hitler was born April 20,1939 but didn't being his holocaust until he rose to power in the year 1933.

Both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had ideas of what “good” art was to look like in their society. Both the Nazi and Soviet regimes wanted art to give a straightforward meaning, rather than leaving the subject of the artwork to be open to interpretation. Nazi Germany opened the Great German Art Exhibition in 1937. Figure 6 shows images that were allowed in this exhibition. This exhibition included art from artists who had been loyal to the regime, the art included nudes, genre scenes, still life, landscapes, and images of workers and heroes. All of the people pictured were idolized pure Aryan people. Along with this exhibition, the Nazis opened an exhibition

After being expelled from East Germany Baselitz went and studied in West Berlin. In 1958, then a 20-year-old art student newly arrived in West Berlin took part in a touring exhibition of contemporary American paintings that where put before the students at his university. “Until then I had lived first under the Nazis, and then in the GDR,” Baselitz described. He goes on to say, “Modern art just did not occur so I knew almost nothing. Not about German expressionism, Dadaism, surrealism or even cubism. And suddenly here was abstract expressionism. Paintings by Pollock, De Kooning, Guston, Still and many others, in the very buildings where I took classes every day. It was overwhelming. And not just for me. Even the professors had not seen this

An infamous dictator. A merciless leader. A man forever associated with the word “prejudice.” Adolf Hitler was born and Austria in 1889 to a mother who he loved dearly and a father who he despised. From a young age, Hitler was passionate for art from a very young age and even applied to a fine arts school twice only to be rejected both times. Hitler joined the German army to serve his country in World War I and continued to serve after the war as an intelligence officer. While spying on the German Workers Party, later known as the Nazi party, Hitler became enticed with the idea of the party. Hitler joined the Nazi party and worked his way up to the chairman before running for Chancellor of German. After this, Hitler, in effort to create the perfect race and Aryan Society, exterminated over five million Jews before committing suicide at the end of World War II (“Adolf”).

Art has been a part of history before Christ was born and along the flow of time different styles and movements revolutionized what art means to the creator and audience. On the flow of time one of the branches that stood out in style, color, and expression through repetition was Impressionism. An artist that helped revolutionize Impressionism in his time was Oscar-Claude Monet, but the piece that stood out was the “Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur.”

When Cubism reached its glorious grasp around 1907–1914, the World was in a wild place. With the Ottoman Empire losing power; European influences were becoming avaricious for more, eventually leading to the start of World War I. On the other side of the world we had America rising as a global supremacy, creating its way to a worldly control. Because of these chaotic matters, society was shifting towards a new direction. The Art World with its artists and writers also responded to this conversion as well. The destruction and cruelty of War altered the lives of several European artists, brought an end to several art movements, and gave light to other movements and brought them to importance. Obviously the artists effected by the war had their work influenced by it but the early decades of the twentieth century gave birth to groundbreaking movements and styles, out of which Cubism (1908-12) was the most rational of all the Avant- Grade movements. It excluded the idea of linear perspective in favor of grander prominence on the two dimensional picture plane, scandalizing the arts academics of Europe along the visitors of Parisian Salon des Independants and the New York Armory Show (1913) in the process

Between 1877 where William Morris wrote “The Lesser Art”, till 1919 when Walter Gropius came up with his program for artists in training, the world has witnessed not only waves of art movements. But also, one of the most devastating events in the modern history, WWI. However, for one to look at what Arts and Crafts movement have brought to the world of art, and compare it to Bauhaus, would not believe how similar the ideas of both men were. As a result of the industrial revolution, Morris wrote about unifying artists and producers, in hope to fight what he described as “vulgarity” (Gorman, 37). On the other hand, Gropius talked about the need for unifying artists with industry, in order to bring back art which became isolated in the “salons”

In this paper I will compare and contrast two paintings, one from French artist Rosa Bonheur and another from German painter Franz Marc. Marc was an expressionist artist who was “a pioneer in the birth of abstract art at the beginning of the twentieth-century.” (Pioch, 2002) Bonheur was a Realist artist who made a great impact on the painting style of realism during the ninetieth century. Bonheur was about embracing reality and nature, while Marc was about evoking moods through the subject matters and colors choices in his paintings. These two artist styles are particularly different from one another, but yet they still have similarities throughout their paintings. This paper will highlight the similarities and differences between these two artists, making the theme “reality” verses “perception”.

The leadership of the Nazi and Soviet parties knew the impact art had on their respective country’s people. It was important that they kept this in mind as they both rose to power. The artistic expression changed due to what was allowed by the Nazi and Soviet regimes. Art was used as a universal language to convey the political ideologies to each society. In Nazi Germany, the focus of art was centered on a patriarchal society, favoring masculinity as women were meant only to be mothers and good homemakers. While in the Soviet Union, the art focused on the newfound equality of between men and women, as the art portrayed a positive message. The art in Nazi Germany was symbolic to show what was acceptable and what was not, while in the Soviet

The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern Art in the Van Vechten gallery at Fisk University accurately represents the modern art movements within the United States and Europe. European artists like Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Gino Severini and Renoir are featured in the exhibition. American artists like Marsden Hartley, Florine Stettheimer and Charles Demuth have pieces displayed as well. One can surely witness the differences and effects of European modern art on American artists and their work when visiting the exhibition. During the early 20th century, American culture began to redefine its ways of perceiving or experiencing the world. This affected artwork allowing it to become much more experimental and explore new topics or styles. American

Art and culture during the Third Reich is a complex phenomenon to understand due to the ambiguity of the scholarship. When the Nazi’s came to power in 1933, they understood that art and culture are going to be a fundamental institution in furthering the efforts of the regime to transform and build a utopian society. It became important to eliminate influences that were being generated by a part of the population considered to be degenerate. However, it is also important to have enemy’s to look down upon and trample over in order to feel superior amongst all races.

During WWII the Nazi’s made a name for themselves as one of the most powerful political parties in the world. When the Nazi’s came to power anything that went against their ideology was immediately crushed and forgotten. Three major ideas or themes that I developed during and after the video was the fact that anything that wasn’t real and skewed the real world image was looked down upon as abnormal and sickening. Another idea was that fact that censorship demoralized humanity and caused people to have a depressing look upon life. A third idea was the fact that the hunger for dominance made a division in the ideology of people either in a negative or positive way.