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Even rarer than the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition guidebook, is this 5-5/16 x 7-7/8 inch (135 x 200 mm) red paper flyer or hand-out that was given to people who visited the grand opening of the House of German Art in Munich in the hope that they would also visit the counter-exhibition of “Degenerate Art” in the Hofgarten nearby. Hundreds of thousands did, but almost nobody saved this one-sided hand-out.
The rarely seen flyer is an extremely interesting read all by itself: a rough translation would be:
Tormented Paintings -
Psychological Rot -
Sick Dreamers -
Insane Bunglers
Highly praised by critics, highly priced by Jewish cliques, these items called “Art” were purchased at prices of millions of Marks by German national and city institutions while Germanic artists were starving. And so the “Art” resembled the “State”.
Have a look yourself! Judge for yourself! Visit the exhibition “Degenerate Art” Hofgarten-Arkaden, Galeriestraße 4. Free admission. No children allowed.
Very rare - we have never seen another original.
NAZI DEGENERATE ART EXHIBITION GUIDE
ORIGINAL EXHIBITION
GUIDE BOOK FOR THE
NAZI ART EXHIBITION
ENTARTETE KUNST (DEGENERATE ART)
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This 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition catalog is offered for sale for
$650.00 delivered to any address in the United States.
We will be happy to ship abroad at additional cost. Please inquire.
USM book # 156a
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This is a very nice example of the 5-7/8 x 8-1/4 inch, 32 page, very heavily illustrated soft cover Ausstellungsführer or guide book for the Nazi anti-Jewish, anti-communist exhibition of Entartete Kunst or Degenerate Art.
The exhibition was held at the Hofgarten Arcade in München (Munich), Germany during the summer and fall of 1937 at the same time as the first Great German Art Exhibition (Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung) in the House of German Art (Haus der Deutschen Kunst) on Prinzregentenstrasse in Munich.
Billed as “Communist and Jewish Garbage”, it became the last opportunity for Germans to see many works by Chagall, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Kokoschka, Modigliani, Matisse, Picasso, Klee, Levy, Feininger, Braque, Derain, Ensor, Laurencin, Pascin, Vlaminck, Marc, Nolde, Hofer, Rohlfs, Dix, Beckmann, Pechstein, Kirchner, Heckel, Grosz, Schmidt-Rottluff, Müller, Modersohn, Macke, Corinth, Liebermann, Amiet, Baraud, Lehmbruck, Mataré, Marcks, Archipenko and Barlach.
With full knowledge that the degenerate art would be sold abroad when the exhibition closed, German citizens stayed away in droves.
Although well-advertised, convenient located and free of any admission charge, German art lovers apparently subscribed to the point of view of the Nazis and decided they did not wish to see communist sketches, barbarians, anti-Christian paintings, class-warfare as art, anarchist drawings, and grotesque sculptures. The exhibition was a poorly attended Nazi critical success.
The exhibition was mounted by the Culture Office of the Reichspropagandaleitung in Berlin to show case the hundreds of works removed from museum across Germany and reclassified as “degenerate art”.
GENUINE NAZI HAND-OUT FOR THE EXHIBITION OF
DEGENERATE ART IN MUNICH IN 1937
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This rare original Degenerate Art exhibition promotional hand-out is
**SOLD**
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In part because the exhibition was the result of the historic Nazi “cleansing” of public German art collections, and in part because the exhibition was so poorly attended, guidebooks for the exhibition of Entartete Kunst are now very difficult to find.
This 70+ year old original example is in very good condition. On a few pages some words are lightly underlined with a red pencil. The internal pages have no foxing.
