Entartete Kunst 1937 - First ed. of the catalogue
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Beskrivning
NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND ART - ENTARTETE KUNST IN FIRST EDITION. Entartete "Kunst". Ausstellungsführer (title on wrapper). Führer durch die Ausstellung Entartete Kunst. Berlin, Verlag für Kultur- und Wirtschaftswerbung (1937).
8vo. (210 x 150 mm.) 30,(2) pp. Richly illustrated exhibition catalogue. Original illustrated printed wrapper, partly worn, upper wrapper lacking corners, some creases and soiling, spine with damages.
This first edition with the price ("Preis 30 PFG") on the lower right corner on upper wrapper and the mentioning of on page 21 and 29.
First edition. There was probably 3 editions published.
Written by Fritz Kaiser. The catalogue shows works by Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee and many others.
The exhibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) opened in Munich on July 19, 1937. Organized by Joseph Goebbels, Third Reich Minister of Propaganda, the exhibition was designed to demonstrate to the German public examples of modernist and avant-garde works that were unacceptable under the Third Reich for reasons of foreignness and cultural degeneracy. Tactics that were employed included stripping paintings from their frames, adding graphic commentary, and highlighting the prices of the works to raise public ire. First in Munich and then as a traveling exhibition, Entartete Kunst was attended by more than two million visitors, with Guggenheim director Hilla Rebay among them. She wrote to the artist Rudolf Bauer in August 1937 to report that she had visited the exhibition, where she saw works by many of the artists she would soon support through exhibitions at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (forerunner of the Guggenheim Museum). These included works by Vasily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, and Bauer, among others. (Chatalbash, https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/findings/entartete-kunste-exhibition-catalogue)
The exhibition was prolonged and travelled to all major German cities from 1938-1941. Many of the paintings and art works in the exhibition was in 1939 sent to Galerie Fischer in Luzern and was auctioned there. The rest was burnt.
Auktionsnummer:
6047
Datum:
2019-12-11