Cover Osteuropa 1-2/2006

In Osteuropa 1-2/2006

Scorned, Sold, Destroyed
“Degenerate Art” and the Radicalisation of Nazi Art Policy

Andreas Hüneke


Deutsche Fassung

Abstract

In 1936, after an initial ambiguity regarding the direction of Nazi art policy – the result of a leadership power struggle and the source of some illusionary hopes – a change of course was set toward the radical rejection of all mod-ern trends. The propagandistic climax was the 1937 exhibition “Degenerate Art” in Munich. More far-reaching, however, were the confiscations, sales and partial destruction of almost 20,000 works of art in years that followed.

(Osteuropa 1-2/2006, pp. 223–234)