Art is not practical. It doesn’t provide food or shelter. It is not utilitarian. It is life itself. Authoritarians the likes of Hitler have tried to control and manipulate the expression of art to fit their version of life. For Hitler, art had to embody the German race. It was used as a propaganda tool to control German culture and promote Hitler’s views of purity and socialist ideology, and how one race is superior to all others.

Branded as ‘Degenerate Art,’ 650 of modern and avant-garde art confiscated from the museums by the Nazis in Germany were displayed to be ridiculed in the Degenerate Art Exhibition in July of 1937. This exhibition was held concurrently to exemplify a counterpoint to the “Great German Art” Exhibition.

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