Degenerate Art on the Internet

The Free University of Berlin has opened an online database of information on the fate of more than 20,000 works of art that was declared “degenerate” by the Nazis and removed from museums in 1937. The site was the result of eight years of work by university art historians, collecting works by Franz Mark, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. About each of the paintings is told from which museum it was removed, called its current location. The site is only available in German, but the English version will be available in the coming weeks. The Nazis called the “degenerate” avant-garde, as well as art that was considered “Jewish” or “Bolshevik” art, which was presented at the exhibition for 37 years. The paintings hung often without frames and among racist inscriptions. Until April 1941, the exhibition toured another 12 cities in Austria and Germany, with a total of three million visitors. TravelForLife.ru