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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9825444, member: 2844"]I agree in the sense that a lot of Modern art was considered degenerate art. But as you said, those artists and art were beyond their grasp. They weren't under any threat, nor did they risk being shot. </p><p><br /></p><p>The term 'degenerate' art, although an older term, was used to show the Germans which art forms didn't fit in the Nazi 'wholesome German' philosophy and esthetic. </p><p>Afaik only works by foreign artists Gauguin, Chagall, Kandinsky and Munch were removed from German museums and auctioned off abroad (maybe they were the only foreign 'degenerate' works in German museums at the time?), and the only foreign art included in the exhibition of degenerate art was that of Chagall, Kandinsky and Munch, which had been very popular in pre-Nazi Germany. I forgot about those when I pictured the exhibition in my mind yesterday.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9825444, member: 2844"]I agree in the sense that a lot of Modern art was considered degenerate art. But as you said, those artists and art were beyond their grasp. They weren't under any threat, nor did they risk being shot. The term 'degenerate' art, although an older term, was used to show the Germans which art forms didn't fit in the Nazi 'wholesome German' philosophy and esthetic. Afaik only works by foreign artists Gauguin, Chagall, Kandinsky and Munch were removed from German museums and auctioned off abroad (maybe they were the only foreign 'degenerate' works in German museums at the time?), and the only foreign art included in the exhibition of degenerate art was that of Chagall, Kandinsky and Munch, which had been very popular in pre-Nazi Germany. I forgot about those when I pictured the exhibition in my mind yesterday.[/QUOTE]
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