Sculpture featured: 'The New Man' by Otto Freundlich was one of hundreds of works labeled 'degenerate art'

'Entartete Kunst' exhibit catalogue cover (1937).

Module four focuses on the implications of the "Entartete Kunst" exhibit, staged in 1937 by the Nazi regime to contrast 'acceptable' and 'offensive' art. The exhibit opened in Munich and traveled to eleven other cities in Germany and Austria. In each installation, the 'offending' works were poorly hung and surrounded by graffiti and hand written labels mocking the artists and their creations. More than 650 works by over 200 artists, including such greats as Chagall, Kandinsky, and Klee, incurred fascist opprobrium for their 'depraved' and 'negative' forms of expression.

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> Featured Image: The 'Entartete Kunst' (Degenerate Art) exhibit, organized by the fascist Nazi regime (1937)