Degenerate art (Entartete Kunst)
There is a great deal of material on the internet about this subject. The links include articles on the exhibition, reproductions of artworks (may take a while to download), essays on avant-garde art (particularly German expressionism) and some material on propaganda and Nazi art.
Degenerate Art — excellent page from A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. Includes reproductions, background information, links, video extract. This site also includes pages on Reich art and Nazi propaganda.
Hitler, Goebbels & Nazi Propaganda — page by Gareth Pritchard. Extracts from key documents, including Hitler's speech on the opening of the House of German Art, and Goebbel's address to Film-Makers at the Kaiserhof.
Art for a Change — pages on German Expressionists, part of an excellent site about politically radical art (home page here). Reproductions and brief artists' biographies.
The Fate of the Avant-garde in Nazi Germany — links to reproductions, and some information on 1991 recreation of the Entartete Kunst exhibition. From Editorial Cartoons, a website about international political visual satire.
TotART — eleven pages on totalitarian art, including several on the Degenerate Art exhibition. Based on Art and Totalitarian Systems by Waldemar Baraniewski.
The Degenerate Art Exhibit of the Third Reich held Summer, 1937 — long page with reproductions and links by Mark Murray.
Entartete Kunst — notes to a film on Degenerate Art, including reproductions.
Degenerate Art in Nazi Germany — long page with several reproductions, by a student at Penn State university.
The War on Degenerate Art — several reproductions.
The Degenerate Art Exhibit at the Munich Haus der Kunst — short essay by Jennifer McAllister.
Entartete Kunst — short page by Werner Hammerstingl. Part of a site on 'Art we don't like'.
Degenerate Art — short page by Steve Lehrer. Includes photograph of Hitler at the Entartete Kunst exhibition.
Purges, Exclusions and Limits: Art Policies in Germany 1933-49 — essay by Cora Goldstein. Concentrates primarily on post-war, but useful.
Modernism and the Nazis: A Nightmare — short essay by Neal Ascherson, from Random Access: On Crisis and its Metaphors, edited by Pavel Büchler and Nikos Papastergiadis, London: Rivers Oram Press, 1995, on the politics of modern art.
Expressionism: Its Spiritual and Social Voice — essay by George Norris.
The Trail of Paint: The Nazi Art Obsession — long essay by Phyllis Farber.
Hitler and the Tyranny of the Aesthetic — essay by Tobin Siebers from Philosophy and Literature vol. 23, no. 2 (2000) on the place of art in Nazi ideology, and the effect of this on our view of art generally.
Deformity - a Modern Western Prejudice with Ancient Origins — article by R. Sullivan, from Proceedings (the journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh), vol. 31, no. 3 (2001) on the cultural history of 'deformity'. Ends with a bried consideration of the Degenerate Art exhibition. Pdf file, requires Acrobat reader.
Art; Policing the Avant-Garde: Parallels Out of the Past — short article by Amei Wallach, review from the New York Times of a play about the exhibition.
Bibliography - Degenerate Art — annotated bibliography from the US National Archives and Records Administration.
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