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There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the ...
The claim comes as Germany considers a major change in settling restitution disputes. The government has announced it will dismantle its advisory commission on Nazi-looted art and replace it with ...
Soon after its rise to power in 1933, the party purged so-called "degenerate art" from German public institutions. Artworks deemed degenerate by the Nazis included modern French and German artists ...
The Maltz Museum’s latest special exhibition, “DEGENERATE! Hitler’s War on Modern Art,” will be on view until April 20.
Like its precursor, it was called “Degenerate Art.” It opened in Munich on July 19, 1937, and presented around 700 works (selected from the thousands that had already been removed from German ...
New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish families to claim ownership of artworks that they believe were sold under ...
The Weimar period had seen a flourishing of German art, much of which was abstract. Hitler saw this modern art as 'degenerate' and over 6,500 works of art were removed from display across Germany.
A Spanish museum says it did not know the painting was stolen when it purchased the art. An impressionist painting worth tens of millions of dollars is at the heart of an ongoing legal battle between ...