Degenerate Art: The Trial of Modern Art under Nazism
With Johan Popelard, chef du département de la conservation et des collections du Musée national Picasso, and curator of the exhibition
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April 22
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The Musée national Picasso Paris presents its new temporary exhibition: "Degenerate’" Art. Modern art on trial under the Nazis. The first exhibition in France devoted to so-called "degenerate" art, it explores and puts into perspective the Nazi regime's methodical attack on modern art.
The show looks in particular at the propaganda exhibition Entartete Kunst (degenerate art), held in Munich in 1937, which showed over 600 works by around a hundred artists representing the different currents of modern art, from Otto Dix to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, from Vassily Kandinsky to Emil Nolde, from Paul Klee to Max Beckmann, in a setting designed to provoke the disgust of the public. "Entartete Kunst" was the culmination of a series of infamous exhibitions held in a number of museums from 1933 onwards (Dresden, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, etc.) to denounce the artistic avant-garde as a threat to German "purity", against the backdrop of a methodical "purge" of German collections.
The show looks in particular at the propaganda exhibition Entartete Kunst (degenerate art), held in Munich in 1937, which showed over 600 works by around a hundred artists representing the different currents of modern art, from Otto Dix to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, from Vassily Kandinsky to Emil Nolde, from Paul Klee to Max Beckmann, in a setting designed to provoke the disgust of the public. "Entartete Kunst" was the culmination of a series of infamous exhibitions held in a number of museums from 1933 onwards (Dresden, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, etc.) to denounce the artistic avant-garde as a threat to German "purity", against the backdrop of a methodical "purge" of German collections.