NAZI EMBARGO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 234, 2 October 1937, Page 18

NAZI EMBARGO.

BAN ON ARTISTS. BERLIN. Tt is reported that the Reich Educa tion Ministry has drawn up a list ot some 300 artists who will in future be debarred from exercising their professional activities or from having their works exhibited publicly. The list is understood to include the names of Otto Dix, Franz Kokoschka, the late Franz Marc, who was killed at Verdun fighting for Germany in 1916, and Schmidt-Rottluff, all of whose works have been attacked in the Nazi Press as "degenerate" and "Bolshevist art."

It is apparently intended, however, to offer for sale to foreign dealers works of this kind which haVe been removed from art galleries in Germany. What remains, including those exhibits now being shown at the "degenerate art" exhibition iii Munich, will be preserved in a permanent exhibition accessible to the public, serving as a "perpetual warning."

In view of the reports arising in connection with the attendance of half a million visitors at the Munich exhibition, the official German news agency has issued a communique denying that such visitors are actuated by love for the despised modernist art.

The suggestion put forward by extreme Nazis that private collections should be raided by the police and "purged" of such art is opposed by official circles here on the ground that "the German nation, with its healthy instincts, knows how to estimate such art fanciers, who can be left to adorn their own houses as they please."