{"id":28975,"date":"2011-08-14T20:21:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T03:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=28975"},"modified":"2013-04-02T05:04:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:04:22","slug":"the-theft-degenerate-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/28975","title":{"rendered":"The theft: Degenerate Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Avant-garde German artists were now branded both enemies of the state and a threat to German culture.’<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1937, the Nazi party hosted ‘Entartete Kunst.’<\/em> This traveling exhibition showcased modern art as the work of madmen, ‘degenerates’ out to destroy the world. <\/p>\n

Confiscated art – works of Kirchner, Nolde, Beckmann, Ernst, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, Dali, Klee, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Grosz and many others – filled the show. After, the pieces were either destroyed or auctioned off.<\/p>\n

For more about Entartete Kunst,<\/em> watch David Grubin’s powerful 1993 Degenerate Art documentary here.<\/a> Read more here<\/a> and here.<\/a> The show’s exhibition catalog is posted here.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Art, ideas, original thoughts: All dangerous. <\/p>\n

This past weekend I saw a documentary on The Inquisition.<\/a> Things such as inquisitions, persecutions \u2013\u00a0Entartete Kunst, McCarthyism \u2013 cycle throughout history. <\/p>\n

What beliefs, doctrines and laws exist today that limit freedom, individuality and progress?<\/p>\n

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