Lot 267
Promotional Leaf for the "Degenerate Art" Exhibition / Photographs of the Mayor of Berlin and Joseph Goebbels visiting the Exhibition / Souvenir Postcards
1. A promotional leaf for the "Degenerate Art" exhibition. [Munich, 1937]. German.
A leaf inviting the public to visit the "Degenerate Art" exhibition, and "judge for themselves" the quality of the "pathological, sick and mentally rotten, canvas torturing" art. Free entrance, no entry for youth. Leaf 21 cm. Good condition. Creases and tears to borders.
2-4. Three Real-Photo postcards, souvenir-postcards of the "Degenerate Art" exhibition. One postcard portrays a painting by the Jewish artist Yankl Adler and the other a painting by Otto Dix ("War Invalids"), and the third features the section where Dada art is exhibited. Good condition.
5-10. Six photos documenting the visit of Berlin's Mayor (and senior Nazi officers), Julius Lippert, to the exhibition, on March 3, 1938. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, is seen in several photos, standing next to Lippert. The photos are pasted to paper leaves, two photos are annotated and all of them are dated (on the paper). Average size 18X13 cm. Good condition. Spots to papers.
The exhibition "Degenerate Art" opened in Munich in July 1937 and displayed 650 paintings and sculptures by 112 artists. The works were confiscated from museums and galleries all over Germany. The aim of the exhibition was to present whatever was considered by the Nazi party as degenerate and pervert. Works by leading modern artists of the first half of the 20th century were exhibited including Matisse, Picasso, Munk, Chagall, Kandinsky and others. Entrance was free and more than two million people visited.
