Overview
- Summary
- Describes Nazi attacks on the avant garde and their desecration of modernist art culminating in the 1937 exhibition of "Entartete Kunst" (degenerate art) in Munich. Describes the opening of the Haus der Kunst and the Nazi approved art it exhibited. Produced in conjunction with the 1991 Los Angeles County Museum reconstruction of the "Degenerate Art" exhibition, which assembled more than 150 surviving masterworks from the original show and gathered photographic documentation, motion-picture footage and the recollections of witnesses of the time.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [1995]
©1995 - Locale
- Germany
- Notes
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Based on the exhibition "Degenate Art" : the fate of the avant-garde in Nazi Germany, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991.
Originally released as television documentary in 1993.
Digital reproductions are made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only.
Cinematography, Allan Palmer; editor, Bob Eisenhardt; narrator, David McCullough; executive producers, David Grubin, Stephanie Barron.
VHS.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Additional Form
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Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
- Physical Description
- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
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- Subject to copyright restrictions.
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