Archive of "degenerate art" seized by the Nazis from museums

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Degenerate Art returns to the market
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Berlin Free University put it to the network of archives "degenerate art», http://emuseum.campus.fu-berlin.de/e...unction=search
 seized by the Nazis from museums in 1937. New data from this database may lead to a number of high-profile litigation and throw it on the art market is a new portion of the masterpieces of European avant-garde

The database on the website of the University collected more than 21 thousand works, including works by Emil Nolde, Wassily Kandinsky, Otto Dix, Marc Chagall, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, El Lissitzky. The work during 1936 were confiscated from museums in Germany by a special commission under the leadership of Adolf Ziegler, and in 1937 are shown in Munich at the exhibition "Degenerate Art".

Degenerative Nazis believed Impressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism - in short, all the avant-garde art movements that have shaped the development of the art of XX century.

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Simultaneously with the exhibition of "degenerate art" was opened on the other - an exhibition of the greatest Germanic art "consisting of works approved by the party in the style of realism. Naked boys and girls, all parts of the body demonstrate their health and fertility, such as the fertile fields, sunny landscapes. And portraits of Hitler, of course. Then the semi-official exhibition of "Aryan" art attended a three and a half times less public than executed as a sideshow exhibit "Judeo-Bolshevik" art, where the pictures were accompanied by captions such as "so sick mind sees nature". The Nazis counted on the public defamation of unwanted artists, but de facto forbidden to advertise art throughout the Reich: the exhibition was traveling, and visited 12 cities in Germany and Austria.

It is known that many works that are officially considered to be degenerative, Goebbels kept at home. And four years before the official order for Entartete Kunst, in 1933 Goebbels sent a congratulatory telegram to Edvard Munch's birthday party on behalf of the entire German people.

The value of the base of the Free University for the art market is obvious. Each work has its own card, which is reported from any museum painting was removed and in which the meeting is now, if not destroyed. Many of the works after the exhibition in 1937 were sold abroad and then there would be found in private collections. A huge number of works in America - in the U.S. in 1991 was an exhibition of the same name. During the war the Nazis, knowing the price of the vanguard of the market, traded "degenerate" paintings to works of classical, baroque and other "classic" styles.

Of course, in earlier meetings with the exhibition in 1937 is unlikely to return. The confiscation was carried out by the Nazis, in accordance with the law, which has not been canceled, so now a museum in Mannheim, for example, can not claim now Alexei Yavlensky «Heilandsgesicht: Blüte» from the Museum of Fine Arts in Rostock.

However, among the published works on the site, there are those works that have been transferred to museums for temporary storage by private owners. If the former owners have the heirs and they will demand the return of confiscated property, then the market will work with museum-quality solid provenance. One example - the work of Paul Klee "Marsh legend» (Sumpflegende), withdrawn from the Provincial Museum in Hanover. Before following her future husband, El Lissitzky, Sofia Kyuppers given to the museum for temporary storage of the collection of her late husband, Paul Erich Kyuppersa, including "swamp the legend of" Klee. In 1937 the work was confiscated and, after a long way, in 1982, acquired by the mayor's office in Munich in conjunction with the fund Gabriele Munter. The mayor of Munich has so far refused to pay the heirs of the work of Sofia Lisitski-Kyuppers, which during the war, was deported to Siberia and died in Novisibirske in 1978.

Simtomatichno that the term "degenerate art" in the course and to this day. They enjoy, forgetting about the Nazi context, but keeping the original meaning. In 2007, the Cologne Archbishop Joachim Mayzers at the opening of the Church of the exhibition said: "Every time when the culture is moving away from the worship of God, the cult atrophies in ritualism becomes, and the art becomes degenerate, causing a storm of protest speech in the German media. In Russia, the term occurs in the chants of the Eurasian Union of Youth.

In the same vein, degenerative build their accusations many opponents vanguard, led by Ilya Glazunov, who are often echoed by the younger generation in the face, for example, Michael Yelizarov.
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Adolf Hitler in the exhibition "Degenerate Art", July 1937