Hitler's Degenerative Art Comes to New York City

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Carol Vogel

Adolf Ziegler’s “The Four Elements,” a 1937 triptych that was on Hitler’s mantel.

NEW YORK---The Neue Galerie’s big spring show, “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937,” has been nearly three years in the making. Some disappeared in the late 1930s, around the time the Nazis raided German museums and public collections, confiscating works they called degenerate because Hitler deemed them un-German or Jewish in nature. A room will be devoted to sanctioned art of the period, like Adolf Ziegler’s triptych “The Four Elements” (1937), which was over Hitler’s mantel. It depicts four young, nude, blond women. [link]