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The Nazis held two concurrent art shows. One with Hitler approved art and another showcasing degenerate art. The degenerate art attracted twice as many viewers.
In 1937 the Nazis held an exhibition of art you should dislike ("Degenerate Art"), the work of artists such as Ernst, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Picasso.
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In 1937, the Nazis put two art shows on in Munich; one was for “degenerate” (mainly abstract) art primarily made by “Jews/Bolsheviks”, while the other one was on “Great” German art, like classics. The former received more than a million visitors, 3 times the number that visited the latter.
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In 1937 Wassily Kandinsky's work was exhibited in the "Degenerate Art Exhibition". Many people attended the exhibition, but the Nazis confiscated 57 of his paintings.
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Hitler considered modern art to be "degenerate". "Exhibitions of shame" were arranged to teach the public to despise modernist art.
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The work of Franz Marc, a German painter who died as a soldier at the Battle of Verdun in 1916, was displayed during the Nazi Party's Degenerate Art Show in 1937. His work was was later accepted by the Nazis after Germans protested, praising him as a war hero.
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Hitler in 1937 held an exhibition of "degenerate art" so that the Nazis would know what to condemn.
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A large amount of 'degenerate art' by Picasso, Dalí, Ernst, Klee, Léger and Miró was destroyed by the Nazi party in a bonfire on the night of July 27, 1942, in Paris.
