1937 Exhibition of "degenerate art" in Berlin
80 years ago, on July 19, 1937, Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels opened an exhibition of "degenerate art" in Berlin from the works of avant-garde and modernists - a total of about 650 works confiscated from 32 museums in Germany. The exhibition featured Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Georg Gross, Otto Dix, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, El Lissitzky, Piet Mondrian, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Emil Nolde, Marc Chagall, Alexei von Jawlensky and other artists.