30 German artists

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The exhibition 30 German Artists was organized by the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) and took place from July 22 to September 1933 in the Ferdinand Möller gallery in Berlin . Mostly works by modern, expressionist artists were shown. The exhibition met with the sharpest criticism of Alfred Rosenberg and was closed after 3 days on July 25th by Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick and only reopened after all references to the National Socialist German Student Union as the organizer had been removed.

history

In the introduction to the catalog, the painter Otto Andreas Schreiber wrote “For justice versus performance! For the freedom of German art! ”. Together with his comrade Fritz Hippler and the painter Hans Weidemann from the National Socialist German Student Union, he invited thirty German artists to an exhibition of modern and expressionist works. The exhibition took place in the context of the heated debate on Expressionism in Germany around 1933/34 .

Otto Andreas Schreiber had already tried to establish the expressionists , the painters of the Brücke and the Blauer Reiter as the art of the “new Germany” in a speech on June 29, 1933 at the rally “Youth fights for German art” and the provincialism of Alfred Rosenberg's previous cultural policy , which was mainly supported by the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur .

The exhibition was closed after 3 days by Reich Minister of the Interior Frick. Entry was no longer possible, two SS guards guarded the entrance to the gallery. The organizers Hippler and Schreiber were excluded from the NS student union. After an intervention by Walther Funk with Joseph Goebbels , the exhibition was reopened a few days later. The NS student union was no longer allowed to act as an organizer.

For some of the participating artists it should be the last public exhibition for the next twelve years.

Artists whose works have been exhibited

Name additions as listed in the original catalog:

literature

  • Hildegard Brenner : The Art Policy of National Socialism . Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1963, p. 70-71 .
  • Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions . Part 1. Exhibitions of German contemporary art during the Nazi era . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-041-8 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.28 .
  • Gregory Maertz: Modernist art in the service of Nazi culture: Baldur von Schirach and the Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich exhibition . In: Patterns of Prejudice . tape 50 , Nos. 4-5. Routledge / Taylor & Francis, 2016, ISSN  0031-322X , p. 337-358 , doi : 10.1080 / 0031322X.2016.1237072 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Ed.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions . Part 1. Exhibitions of German contemporary art during the Nazi era . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-041-8 , p. 22 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.28 .
  2. ^ A b Janos Frecot: Marginalia on the National Socialist cultural policy . In: Between Resistance and Adaptation: Art in Germany 1933–1945 . Edition Peter Wippermann, 1980, ISBN 3-88331-905-8 , p. 80 .
  3. ↑ Christian Saehrendt: “The Bridge” between statecraft and ostracism: Expressionist art as a political issue in the Weimar Republic, in the “Third Reich” and in the Cold War . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08614-5 , pp. 47-48 .
  4. ↑ Seen from the coffin. Retrieved April 24, 2014 (biographical comments by Otto Andreas Schreiber).