Entartete Kunst leaflet

Identifier
irn614066
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.227.2
Dates
1 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1937
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn614066

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Philip and Janet Levin Foundation

The acquisition of this collection was made possible in 2018 by the Philip and Janet Levin Foundation.

Scope and Content

Advertising leaflet for the "Entartete Kunst" [Degenerate Art] exhibition in Munich 1937. The text of the flyer invites the public to visit the exhibition and "to judge for himself" the quality of the art, describing the artwork as "pathologic, sick and spiritually rotten, torturing the fabric" of German society. The flyer describes the exhibition as free to enter, but "forbidden to youth."

Subjects

  • Art, German--20th century--Exhibitions.

Genre

  • Advertising fliers.
  • Document
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