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- Title
HIGH ART AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM PART I.
- Authors
Puloy, Monika Ginzkey
- Abstract
All national collections entail political perspectives, but never has there been a plan so systematically laid and carried out as that employed by Hitler to establish a controlling cultural focus for the National Socialist German Reich. This study traces the growth of that plan to control and use art as an instrument of political will and power from the exhibitions of 'Degenerate Art' and Hausder Deutschen Kunst in 1937, through to the arguments and laws used to justify the appropriation of treasures: by declaring objects of value as 'germanic'; by purchase on the open market; by 'forced sale'; by appropriation from 'enemies of the Reich'; by taking for 'safekeeping'; by restoring to the Reich works previously stolen from Germany; by intending to take art works as part of peace treaties' in agreement with defeated countries; and finally, by the accumulation of this vast collection in strategic safe ten centres ready to be selected for the splendid Kulturzentrum to be constructed under the guidance of the Führer himself at Linz in Austria.
- Subjects
LINZ (Austria); AUSTRIA; NATIONAL socialism &; art; MUSEUMS; IDEOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of the History of Collections, 1996, Vol 8, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0954-6650
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhc/8.2.201