German artists and the SS

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German Artists and the SS was an art exhibition of the Reichsführer SS and the supplementary office of the main office of the SS in Breslau in early 1944. The exhibition was u. a. advertised through an art postcard series. The catalog for the exhibition was published by Wilhelm Limpert Verlag with an introductory text by SS-Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger and contained an introduction by Heinrich Himmler . The 72-page catalog on art paper contained 63 illustrations of exhibited works of art, the cover was drawn by Johannes Boehland .

The exhibition was shown three months later in Salzburg in a partially changed and new composition . A catalog was also published for this.

Artists whose works have been exhibited

Among the exhibited artists were also amateur painters who painted on the front. A total of 589 exhibits were shown in the Wroclaw exhibition, of which a total of 63 works by the following artists were represented in the exhibition catalog with one illustration each:

Catalogs

  • German artists and the SS (catalog for the exhibition in Breslau 1944). Limpert, Berlin 1944
  • Reichsführer SS / SS-Hauptamt (ed.): German artists and the SS . List of artists and works, 36 pages, with 20 illustrations. Salzburg. Exhibition June - July 1944. Exhibition director Karl Schuster-Winkelhof. Limpert Verlag, Berlin 1944. Manufactured by Bruckmann KG, Munich 1944.

literature

  • Ingeborg Bloth, Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum: German Art 1933–1945 in Braunschweig . Georg Olms Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-487-10914-X .

Individual evidence

  1. on Carlos Riefel, Karl von Riefel see curriculum vitae ( memento of the original from April 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and en: Carlos von Riefel @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mariaenzersdorf.gv.at
  2. Library records at BVB
  3. Library records with different titles in the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog