July 18, 1937

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Martin Antonenko

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The Nazis show the world
what they mean by "German art"...!



On July 18, 1937, the new "House of German Art" in Munich was opened personally by chief artist Adolf Hitler!



The architect of the building is officially Paul Ludwig Troost...



...but it's no secret that Hitler, who also thought he knew something about architecture, played a key role in the plans.

The result is a selected abomination of National Socialist government architecture!

This is what the "House of German Art" looked like at the opening...:



...and so today (unfortunately it still stands!)...:



Fortunately, an approximately mirror-inverted extension on the opposite side of the street could no longer be realized due to Allied superiority!

At the same time as the building, the "German Art Exhibition" shown in it will also be opened!





There the Nazis show their subjects and the world what they mean by "art" - and that would be really side-splitting if it weren't so sad!












The exhibition is designed as a sales exhibition, all the crap can also purchase!

And there must have been a bunch of people with infantile tastes, because art is sold for 13 million Reichsmarks.

The former postcard painter Hitler (who himself didn't even master the central perspective properly!) alone buys works for 6.8 million Reichsmarks.

He can afford it, since he has become extremely rich through excessive abuse of power, which he carefully conceals from the public.

The exhibition is visited by 600,000 people.


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Part II

A day later (that's on purpose!), on July 19, 1937, the "Degenerate Art" exhibition, deliberately conceived as a counterpart to "German art", opened - also in Munich - in the run-down (that's also on purpose!) gallery building "Hofgartenarkaden".





To this end, the Nazis plundered what were once Germany's leading museums - such as the "Wallraf-Richartz-Museum" in Cologne, the "Folkwang-Museum" in Essen, the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Landesmuseum in Hanover and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

For the Germans, whose artistic sensibilities have so far withstood Nazi propaganda, it is the only way to see really good quality art during the Nazi tyranny, such as works by Franz Marc, Otto Dix, Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann and Paul Klee.















2,009,899 visitors came, almost four times as many as wanted to see the Nazi "art" - a vote with their feet, if you will...
 
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