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Self-Portrait as a Degenerate Artist
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. . . on behalf of the German people I would like to ban any such pitiful unfortunates—evidently the victims of defective eyesight—from attempting to bluff the public into accepting the products of their distorted vision as real, or even as ‘art.’
—Adolf Hitler, July 18, 1937, opening remarks, House of German Art1(p386,388)
On July 19, 1937, the National Socialists (Nazis) opened the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibit directly across the park from the newly founded House of German Art that had opened the day before. Entartete Kunst1 contained 650 items that had been confiscated from 32 public German museums during the previous 2 weeks and hastily assembled. The confiscation of these works was retrospectively legalized on May 31, 1938; the museums were never financially compensated, and the artists represented were advised to stop painting and many were fired from their academic positions. The first rooms of the exhibit were grouped by theme: . . . [Full Text of this Article]
James C. Harris, MD
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