Degenerate Art, a New Exhibit in New York, Recalls Nazi Efforts to Vilify Modern Art During the Rise of the Third Reich

TAIPAI TIMES
By Holland Cotter / NY Times News Service

A woman looks over a group of woodcuts titled "The Life of Christ"
by German expressionist painter and printmaker Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. 

NEW YORK---"Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937," at the Neue Galerie, opens with a quietly devastating compare-and-contrast. The walls of the narrow hallway leading onto the first gallery are covered with facing photomurals. The image in one dates from 1938. It shows the exterior of the Haus der Kunst (House of the Arts) in Berlin where the traveling anti-modernist exhibition called Entartete Kunst — “Degenerate Art” — has opened. The line of visitors waiting to get in stretches down the street. [link]