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Making a Mockery of Hitler’s Mockery of Degenerate Art

JL;DR SUMMARY Anna Goldenberg reflects on the emotional complexity of viewing Nazi-approved art at the Neue Galerie's exhibition of 'Degenerate Art.' A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Adolf HitlerBauhausCensorshipNazi GermanyModern ArtNeue GalerieDegenerate ArtExpressionismAdolf Ziegler1937 Exhibition

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"It can currently be viewed in New York City, at the Neue Galerie, as part of the exhibition Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"The mock art exhibit was first held in Munich in 1937 and showed the works of 112 artists that the Nazis deemed degenerate because their work didnt fit the Third Reichs ideology."
Hamburg, Germany
"And at the entrance of the current New York exhibit, a German poster advertising the show in Hamburg in 1938 read, What we see in this interesting show was once taken seriously!!!"

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