Deutsch: Selbst das wurde einmal ernst genommen und hoch bezahlt! Die Titel heißen: „Der Gott der Flieger“, „Am Strand“, „Merzbild“ und „Familienbild“. Die „Künstler“ heißen: Molzahn, Metzinger und Schwitters. Die Juden heißen: Meidner, Freundlich und Haizmann.
Kaiser Fritz, München / Propagandaleitung, Amtsleitung Kultur / Verlag für Kultur- und Wirtschaftswerbung, Berlin:
Führer durch die Ausstellung Entartete Kunst (1938). Der berühmt-berüchtigte Münchner Ausstellung von 1937 folgte von 1938 bis 1941 eine Wanderausstellung unter demselben Titel, die in zwölf Städten Station machte, jedoch teilweise andere Exponate zeigte.
English: Degenerate Art Exhibition catalogue, p. 23.
Works from top left to lower right:
- Johannes Molzahn, Der Gott der Flieger, 1921, oil on canvas.
- Jean Metzinger, En Canot ("On the Beach"), 1913, 'oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm (57.5 in × 44.9 in)
- Kurt Schwitters, Merzbild, 1918-19, mixed media, 100 x 70 cm.
- Johannes Molzahn, Familienbild.
Page translation:
Even this was once taken seriously and bought for good money! The titles are "The God of the Airmen," "On the Beach," "Merz Picture," and "Family Portrait." The "artists" are: Molzahn, Metzinger, and Schwitters.
Cropped, low resolution image of a page from the guide or catalogue of the "
Degenerate Art Exhibition" (
Entartete Kunst Ausstellung) first shown in München 1937, written by Fritz Kaiser and published by
Verlag für Kultur- und Wirtschaftswerbung for the
Amtsleitung Kultur of the
Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP, the Nazi Party's propaganda central office in Germany 1926–1945. The guide was published in 1938 when the exhibition went on tour to Berlin (shown in
Kunsthalle Berlin from 26 February to 8 May) and other cities until 1941. No known copyright restrictions. This file is copied from
a scanned facsimile of the catalogue found at the
Archive.org.
The Degenerate Art Exhibition (German:
Die Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst") was an art exhibition organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich from 19 July to 30 November 1937. The exhibition presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition. Degenerate art was defined as works that "insult German feeling, or destroy or confuse natural form or simply reveal an absence of adequate manual and artistic skill". Another Degenerate Art Exhibition was hosted a few months later in Berlin, and later in Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Weimar, Halle, Vienna and Salzburg, to be seen by another million or so people.