Degenerate Art promoted paintings and sculptures that were traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience. "modern art" had no place in Nazi Germany.
At the time disapproved music was termed degenerate music (such as Jazz), films and plays also were censored.
In 1933 when Hitler rises into power he burned books an artists and musicians were dismissed from teaching positions, and creators who had shown partiality to modern art because hitler was trying to cleanse the culture of degeneracy
Bauhaus Was closed
Cover of the catalogue of the Nazi "Degenerate Art" exhibition (1937). The exhibition was held to defame modern and Jewish artists.
Nazi Poster entartete musik poster Degenerate Music
Jewish Composers and Jazz/Swing musicians were accused by the Nazis to produce "degenerated music"
Degernerate Art Exhibition - Munich 1937
Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer.
The Nazi government called Beckmann cultural Bolshevik an he was dismissed from teaching position at an art school
Max Beckmann Self-portrait with Horn, 1938-1940
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