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  Entartete Kunst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Minors were barred from the show, the pretext being that decent German youth needed to be shielded from the depth of the artworks' obscenity, lest the future of the Reich be corrupted.
Entartete Kunst portrayed the eclipse of an age of "decadence and chaos", while the Great German Art exhibit heralded the dawn of a new epoch of Governmental control of the Arts: sanitized, uninspired, and devoid of dissent.
Entartete kunst was just the tip of the iceberg: In 1937 alone more than sixteen thousand examples of modern art were confiscated as 'degenerate' by a committee headed by Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers second in command (and Minister for Public Enlightenement and Propaganda)
www.olinda.com /ArtAndIdeas/lectures/ArtWeDontLike/entarteteKunst.htm   (375 words)

  
  sfbg.com
Entartete Kunst ("degenerate art") was a notorious 1937 Nazi Party road show featuring more than 600 artworks by Paul Klee, Edvard Munch, Marc Chagall, and others deemed offensive to Aryan purity.
It sets the tone for the group's endeavor as a whole: Entartete Kunst music is DIY electronica created in the studio, at times gothic, heavy, industrial, enthralling, and shot through with hope and political and artistic ambition.
Entartete Kunst also must deal pragmatically with the issues of capitalism, commodity, and earning a living, but self-sufficiency is their ultimate goal.
www.sfbg.com /37/21/art_music_entartete.html   (1468 words)

  
 Degenerate art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Degenerate art (from the German: entartete Kunst) was the official platform adopted by the Nazi regime for banning modern art in favor of Heroic Art.
By 1937, this concept was firmly entrenched in Nazi policy, and authorities purged German museums of modern art now condemned as degenerate.
The entartete Kunst exhibit premiered in Munich in March, 1937, and travelled to eleven other cities in Germany and Austria.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Entartete_Kunst   (1368 words)

  
 Degenerate Art - Multimedia Collection
Entartete Kunst [ent-AR-te-te Koonst] (Degenerate Art) was the title of an infamous art exhibition mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937 as a means of defaming the works of Germany's most compelling modern artists.
Based on a 1991 Los Angeles County Museum of Art reconstruction of the original installation, this documentary brings to life the historical context of the 1937 exhibition and examines the far-reaching effects of the Nazi's vilification of the avant-garde in Germany.
Through archival footage of Nazi book burnings, installation shots of the original Entartete Kunst exhibition, and interviews with historians, art critics, family members of several defamed artists, and eyewitnesses to the 1937 exhibition, "Degenerate Art" offers a rare look at a dark chapter in modern history.
osulibrary.orst.edu /video/art55.html   (150 words)

  
 Decca Music Group - Music
A year or so after the opening in Munich of the exhibition "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art), the cultural politicians of the Nazi regime put on another, much less well-known show: this exhibition, entitled "Entartete Musik", was staged in Düsseldorf in 1938.
Most of the musicians affected by this absurd censorship - performers, composers, musicologists and teachers - were forced to emigrate or killed, causing a serious drain of talent in European musical life, the consequences of which have scarcely been recognized or appreciated even today.
From a purely musical point of view, the "Entartete Musik" series has, with unanimous international critical acclaim, brought back to life more than 30 forgotten key works from the first half of this century by composers such as Braunfels, Goldschmidt, Haas, Korngold, Krása, Krenek, Ullmann and Waxman.
www.deccaclassics.com /music/entartete   (317 words)

  
 Anarchist Hip Hop with SF's ENTARTETE KUNST COLLECTIVE, Fri 1/28 : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Entartete Kunst collective members, Drowning Dog, 187/Raw Knowledge, and Malatesta (aka DJ Slo-Mo) will be celebrating the release of their new album, States of Abuse, with a short live set.
"Entartete Kunst" in German means "degenerate art", it was the name given to art that wasn't down with the Nazis philosophies.
What happened was, in 1937 the nazis tried to ridicule avant guard and radical artists by stealing their art and putting it in a huge exhibition called "Entartete Kunst".
sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1710071   (525 words)

  
 Degenerate Art
This excerpt from the exhibition catalog for "Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany" describes the historical roots of degenerate art.
Many of the artists included in the Entartete Kunst exhibition are now considered masters of the twentieth century.
Many of his paintings were sold by the Third Reich after the Entartete Kunst exhibition.
fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/arts/artDegen.htm   (1354 words)

  
 entartete Kunst
entartete Kunst - Das Orth-Haus in Bonn nahe Koeln ist ein Privatmuseum, das auch sogenannte entartete Kunst zeigt.
Der Hausherr Peter J. Orth, selbst Kuenstler und Foerderer der Kunst, zeigt sich stets gastfreundlich und offen.
Zeitgenössische Kunst, Brunnen und Skulpturen von internationalen Künstlern,
www.orth-haus.com /html/orth/entartete-kunst.php   (379 words)

  
 Degenerate art -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Degenerate art (from the (A person of German nationality) German: entartete Kunst) was the official platform adopted by the (A German member of Adolf Hitler's political party) Nazi regime for banning (additional info and facts about modern art) modern art in favor of Heroic Art.
By 1937, this concept was firmly entrenched in Nazi policy, and authorities purged German (A depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value) museums of modern art now condemned as degenerate.
The entarte Kunst exhibit premiered in (The capital and largest city of Bavaria in southeastern Germany) Munich in March, 1937, and travelled to eleven other cities in Germany and Austria.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/degenerate_art.htm   (1719 words)

  
 museum in progress
Entartete Kunst was an instant and enduring winner.
The Entartete Kunst catalogue juxtaposed the paintings with works by mental patients; other exhibition material put together Expressionist representations of the human body with photographs of gross deformity in hospital patients.
Anyway, the battle between Kunst der Nation and the Kampfbund over what was to be the official style broke out in earnest when Nolde applied to join the Kampfbund and û to his own bewilderment û was refused.
www.mip.at /en/dokumente/1626-content.html   (2148 words)

  
 Degenerate Art Article
In Degenerate Art, the troupe is seeking to link 1990's debates about the N.E.A. with the 1937 "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition in Munich, which the Nazi Government organized to show the German people the kind of art they were meant to hate.
In order to exploit fully its charges of obscenity against the works on view, the German Government gave the "Entartete Kunst" exhibition an X rating; young visitors were to be excluded.
Barron was completing her reconstruction of the "Entartete Kunst" show, some American senators and congressmen were using comparable language to denounce the works of Robert Maplethorpe and Andres Serrano in their opening salvos against the N.E.A. In her catalogue essay, Ms.
www.irondale.org /press/articles/DArt.htm   (1354 words)

  
 Entartete Kunst at the Anarchist Bookfair March 2005 : SF Bay Area Indymedia
Entartete Kunst at the Anarchist Bookfair March 2005 : SF Bay Area Indymedia
Entartete Kunst performs at the Anarchist Bookfair March 2005.
Entartete Kunst is a class-conscious worker-owned collective that produce and distribute hip-hop, various electronic stylings and radical literature that promotes positive social change.
www.indybay.org /news/2005/08/1759061.php   (127 words)

  
 Censorship: Wielding the Red Pen - Entartete Musik
The official Nazi logo for Entartete Musik was the displayed grotesque caricature of the original poster for Jonny spielt auf, in which the saxophonist wears a Star of David instead of a carnation in his tuxedo lapel.
In 1937, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels declared that the Reich must rid itself of "this decadent byproduct of Bolshevik Jewish corruption and of Blacks and their hated jazz" and staged an enormous exhibition of Entartete Kunst, or degenerate art, in Munich.
In 1938, a smaller exhibition of Entartete Musik, or degenerate music, in Dusseldorf included opera and operetta, twelve-tone music, and jazz as well as works by Jewish composers and modernists including Hindemith, Schoenberg, Weill, Berg, and Stravinsky.
www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/censored/musik.html   (686 words)

  
 Degenerate Art (Entartete Kunst)
The Fate of the Avant-garde in Nazi Germany — links to reproductions, and some information on 1991 recreation of the Entartete Kunst exhibition.
Entartete Kunst — notes to a film on Degenerate Art, including reproductions.
Entartete Kunst — short page by Werner Hammerstingl.
pers-www.wlv.ac.uk /~bu1895/degenerate_art.htm   (501 words)

  
 No title   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Once the search began in earnest, there would not be any rest until all of the degenerate art was exposed and removed to be eventually auctioned for cash or burnt.
The primary motivation as to how and where the individual pieces of degenerate art were to be displayed was maximum shock value.
Even though it seems incredible, numerous examples of Degenerate Art disappeared in the transition, and some of the less sellable were likely destroyed in a huge bonfire outside the fire station amidst rumors that some of the better artwork was removed in advance (Petropoulos, The Faustian Bargain 84-85).
www.owlnet.rice.edu /~laylaa/newfile_12.html   (951 words)

  
 Paul Klee - AMAM
Hesse and the museum director, Ludwig Grothe, were later sharply criticized by the National Socialists for their promotion of modern "degenerate" art, and were forced to resign from office in 1933.
In 1937 Klee's painting was included in an exhibition of "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) in Dessau and--together with the entire collection of modern art--was confiscated from the museum.
Although many of his works were confiscated from German collections in 1937, and seventeen were included in Hitler's Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition held in Munich, Klee's work continued to be shown in New York, Paris, and Zurich in 1938.
www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/klee_paul.html   (1434 words)

  
 The Degenerate Art exhibit opened by the National Socialists on July 19, 1937 (Entartete Kunst)
The Degenerate Art exhibit opened by the National Socialists on July 19, 1937 (Entartete Kunst).
At the opening of the Haus der Kunst Hitler announced "From now on we are going to wage a merciless war of destruction against the last remaining elements of cultural disintegration….Should there be someone among [the artists] who still believes in his higher destiny- well now, he has had four years’ time to prove himself.
Kunst politik was controlled by too many offices and too many conflicting personalities.
astro.temple.edu /~bigred76/150/hdk.html   (1104 words)

  
 Street Knowledge: Conscious Music Blog » Entartete Kunst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
It was a term the Nazis used to term expressions that did not fit the Third Reich’s ideals or its beliefs.
Today, Entartete Kunst is the name of a San Francisco Bay Area record label and musical collective.
Its specialty is political electronica, with dashes of other influences pitched in to the stew.
www.streetknowledge.net /archives/38   (204 words)

  
 Nazi Exhibition of Degenerate Art in Germany
In 1937 in Munich the Nazis held an art exhibition of what they called Entartete Kunst, or Degenerate Art.
The purpose of the exhibition was to let the Germans know that some forms and pieces of art were not accepted by the "highest race", and this art is "degenerate", also called as Jewish or Bolshevistic.
Bio of a Russian-born painter often regarded as the originator of abstract art, a close friend of Paul Klee.
www.germanculture.com.ua /library/weekly/aa072599.htm   (337 words)

  
 No-Field Electronica
(Free Mumia 10" - v/a - Entartete Kunst)
"No-field electronica nat sich das aus san francisco stammende imprint entartete kunst auf die fahnen geschrieben und damit gar nicht so unrecht.
Zwischen politsicher agitation,spoken word poetry,electronica,ill-hop,tripdub,spunkjazz und sonstigen weirden exkursionen bewegt sich auch die dritt folge der "Live at the Complex"- reihe und featured mit artists wie Phantom Patient,dj 381-813,dj Slo-Mo,Ptingla und anderen wieder einmal eine geballte horenswerter acts aus dem bay area-umfeld.
www.entartetekunst.info /recent_releases.html   (1113 words)

  
 1937   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Munich, Germany, July 1937: Adolf Hitler's Nazi party mounted an exhibition of confiscated art, "Entartete Kunst," meaning, "Degenerate Art." It showcased--and ridiculed--the work of contemporary artists such as Max Beckman, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, and over 200 others.
The exhibition was intended to show the public the insanity, atrocity, and depravity of the modern art movement.
A culmination of Hitler and Goebbels' purge of all remaining modern art held in both public and private collections in the Reich, the exhibit was designed to ridicule and denegrate creative works not upholding "correct" National Socialist
www.jahsonic.com /1937.html   (320 words)

  
 Tate | Glossary | Degenerate art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Degenerate art is the English translation of the German phrase Entartete Kunst.
In 1937, German museums were purged of modern art by the government, a total of some 15,550 works being removed.
A selection of these was then put on show in Munich in an exhibition titled Entartete Kunst.
www.tate.org.uk /collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=84   (192 words)

  
 20th Century Propaganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Hitler staged the huge Entartete Kunst exhibition to show the German population how these artists corrupted and tainted society; even the word "degenerate" in the German vocabulary refers to the insane, which in turn alludes to the jews.
In contrast, the Grosse Deutsche Kuntausstellung exhibited works of art officially approved by the Third Reich and based exclusively on German racial tradition, giving the population a means to compare "good" and "bad" art.
Entartete Kunst served to reinforce the great myth of the Aryan race superiority into the minds of the German people, and in this way became a form of propaganda.
iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Fall98/Wolfe/20thC.html   (651 words)

  
 wac : gallery 9 : 0100101110101101.ORG : bio + links
Maver's brand of nomadic performance art, which consisted of placing gruesomely realistic models of murder victims in a series of hotel rooms and empty houses dotted around the former Yugoslavia, had been attracting press attention since the previous years.
The Bologna-based webzine Entartete Kunst ('Degenerate Art') had spotted him first, and profiles had followed in Tema Celeste and Flesh Out.
Maver, they claim, does exist - in hybrid form, skulking the network from which he's been teased and wired (the photos, for example, are imported from the stomach-churning rotten site; the name Darko Maver itself was found in a bibliography).
www.walkerart.org /archive/1/B6738DD1C0C7E701616F.htm   (331 words)

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