DEGENERATE ART

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 8

DEGENERATE ART

GERMAN EXHIBITION

'"An exhibition of degenerate art" was opened at Munich on July 19, says the "New York Times." It contains numerous examples of paintings and sculptures of the^period from 1918 to 1933—^he fifteen-v years that National Socialists call "our era of shame."

In the capital of German art, as Munich is now officially designated; this exhibition was' opened to the public to emphasise the contrast between what Chancellor Adolf Hitler called "a clean and healthy national' art" that every German can "understand and appreciate and what he termed "filthy examples of frightfulness in art as inflicted on the nation by fakers, dilettantes, and charlatans." Among-.the paintings at this exhibition are works by George Grosz and Oscar Kokoschka, both of whom are well known abroad, the former being a professor of the Young Art Students League in New York.' Professor Adolf Ziegler, who made the opening address at the exhibition, invited all Germans "to come and see these"" atrocities, and judge for yourselves." He said that this "incomprehensible and" often disgusting art had been bought'with German workmen s savings and that galleries had been filled with paintings caricaturing German mothers and German soldiers;"indeed, everything that the nation reveres."

"DRAGGED IN FILTH."

"All that is decent in Germany^ Professor Ziegler ■asserted, has been dragged in filth by, such alleged artists Ugliness has been dragged in to depict .beauty. Street-walkers and souteneurs have h^,^f^J^ mentally sick 'artists,' who thereby vented their spleen on the true Oei m"Th"s aUis n only a'little of what we have been suffering through Jewishffa^KUr. and critics. They^ Vinrf their years 01 glory. J-ney win Swai from our art institutions foreVHerr Hitler's speech was printed in fuK Si the principal newspapers, aP^ Va.'Berliner"'Boersenzeitung and Boersen-Courier'; says>- . q Ger _! .„ Hiller M "tbe Bi»n who hra been German national art.