Description
As the Nazi Party consolidated their power in the 1930s, a major goal was controlling culture and the arts. Many museums were closed and their holdings confiscated. Many private collections were looted. This control culminated in the “Degenerate Art Show, which traveled around Germany in 1938. The exhibit’s intention was to show how “unhealthy” and decadent art had become in the hands of “Jews, Communists, and Modernists.” One painting by Max Beckmann was included in the show and is now on view at the Saint Louis Art Museum, which also exhibits paintings and sculpture by many artists the Nazi’s considered “degenerate.”
