Original London show was hailed as protest against Nazi censorship of artists they labelled ‘degenerate’A Berlin gallery has reconstructed an exhibition of German contemporary art 80 years after it was staged in London by a group of collectors and dealers intending to cock a snook at the Nazi regime’s campaign against artists it saw as debauched.
Thirty of the original 300 paintings,by 64 artists from Wassily Kandinsky to Oskar Kokoschka, many of whom were forced into exile and whose works had been stripped from German museums, and will be reunited for the first time at the Liebermann Villa in Berlin for the exhibition London 1938: Defending “Degenerate” German Art. Related: Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-33 review – sex,death and decadence Related: Nora Krug: ‘I would absorb thought, whats left to say about Germany’s Nazi past?' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com