The Paradox of ‘Degenerate Art’: Nazi Germany’s War on Modernism
The year is 1937. In the heart of Nazi Germany, a grand exhibition opens its doors, not to celebrate artistic achievement, but to revile it. Titled “Entartete Kunst”—Degenerate Art—it showcased a curated collection of modern masterpieces, twisted and defaced, presented as the spawn of madness and racial impurity. This was no mere display of poor … Read more