Lot 1707
Entartete Kunst. Ausstellungsführer. Berlin 1937. - In addition: F. Roh, "Entartete Kunst". Hannover 1962.
Estimate
€ 300
Starting Price
€ 200
Lot:
1707
Category:
Illustrated Books, portfolios and art literature until 1945
Entartete „Kunst“. Ausstellungsführer. Berlin: Verlag für Kultur- und Wirtschaftswerbung (1937). 21 x 15 cm. With 57 illustrations (including the cover) in black and white. 30 pages, 1 leaf. Illustrated paperback with staple binding.
(The cover has come loose from the binding; the inside front and back covers are held together with tape; the edges of the cover are scuffed; there are two small tears along the bottom edge. The title page bears a handwritten note in faint pencil. The paper has yellowed and is slightly stained in places.)
Barron, S. 356. - Bearing all the characteristics of the first edition described by Hüneke; the price label has been covered with a sticker reading ‘Price 30 Pfg.’ (cf. Barron, p. 356). - The ‘Entartete Kunst’ exhibition, organised by the Nazi art official Adolf Ziegler, opened in Munich on 19 July 1937 and presented around 650 works of classical modernism that had previously been confiscated from 32 German museums. Among the works on display were those by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and numerous other avant-garde artists. The aim of this propagandistic exhibition was to publicly defame modern art as an expression of supposed cultural and moral decline. The works were deliberately hung in close proximity to one another, accompanied by derisive comments and polemical wall inscriptions, and torn from their original art-historical context in order to discredit their impact. Fritz Kaiser was responsible for the content of the exhibition catalogue and also formulated the exhibition’s ideological objectives. With over two million visitors, the exhibition became one of the most visited art exhibitions of its time and was subsequently shown in numerous German and Austrian cities.The exhibition catalogue ranks amongst the key printed works of Nazi art propaganda and serves as a prime example of the cultural-political instrumentalisation of the publishing and exhibition sectors in the ‘Third Reich’.
Accompanying item: Roh, Franz: ‘Degenerate’ Art. Art Barbarism in the Third Reich. Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag 1962. 23.5 x 18 cm. 330 pp., 1 leaf. Original binding with original dust jacket.
(The cover has come loose from the binding; the inside front and back covers are held together with tape; the edges of the cover are scuffed; there are two small tears along the bottom edge. The title page bears a handwritten note in faint pencil. The paper has yellowed and is slightly stained in places.)
Barron, S. 356. - Bearing all the characteristics of the first edition described by Hüneke; the price label has been covered with a sticker reading ‘Price 30 Pfg.’ (cf. Barron, p. 356). - The ‘Entartete Kunst’ exhibition, organised by the Nazi art official Adolf Ziegler, opened in Munich on 19 July 1937 and presented around 650 works of classical modernism that had previously been confiscated from 32 German museums. Among the works on display were those by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and numerous other avant-garde artists. The aim of this propagandistic exhibition was to publicly defame modern art as an expression of supposed cultural and moral decline. The works were deliberately hung in close proximity to one another, accompanied by derisive comments and polemical wall inscriptions, and torn from their original art-historical context in order to discredit their impact. Fritz Kaiser was responsible for the content of the exhibition catalogue and also formulated the exhibition’s ideological objectives. With over two million visitors, the exhibition became one of the most visited art exhibitions of its time and was subsequently shown in numerous German and Austrian cities.The exhibition catalogue ranks amongst the key printed works of Nazi art propaganda and serves as a prime example of the cultural-political instrumentalisation of the publishing and exhibition sectors in the ‘Third Reich’.
Accompanying item: Roh, Franz: ‘Degenerate’ Art. Art Barbarism in the Third Reich. Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag 1962. 23.5 x 18 cm. 330 pp., 1 leaf. Original binding with original dust jacket.