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Castaway modernism : Basel's acquisitions of "degenerate" art / editors, Eva Reifert, Tessa Rosebrock.

In 1937, the Nazi cultural policy denounced thousands of works as degenerate and forcibly removed them from German museums. The Third Reich's Ministry of Propaganda assumed that a portion of such works would find buyers abroad. In this way certain artworks deemed internationally "exploitab...

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Other Authors: Reifert, Eva (Editor), Rosebrock, Tessa (Editor)
Other title:Basel's acquisitions of "degenerate" art
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Germany : Hatje Cantz, [2022]
Subjects:
Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel > Exhibitions.
Entartete Kunst > Exhibitions.
Art, German > 20th century > Exhibitions.
National socialism and art > Exhibitions.
Germany > Cultural policy > Exhibitions.
Switzerland > Cultural policy > Exhibitions.
Art > Switzerland > Basel > Exhibitions.
Art > Collectors and collecting > Switzerland > Basel > Exhibitions.
Art dégénéré > Expositions.
Art allemand > 20e siècle > Expositions.
Nazisme et art > Expositions.
Art > Suisse > Bâle > Expositions.
Art > Collectionneurs et collections > Suisse > Bâle > Expositions.
Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.
Art.
Art > Collectors and collecting.
Art, German.
Cultural policy.
Entartete Kunst.
National socialism and art.
Germany.
Switzerland.
Switzerland > Basel.
1900-1999
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Josef Helfenstein
  • Acknowledgments / Eva Reifert, Tessa Rosebrock
  • Introduction: A new museum building and a seminal decision for the collection / Eva Reifert
  • The national socialist "degenerate art" campaign: background, terminology, stages, and consequences / Christoph Zuschlag
  • The worth of worthless art ideological contradictions in the trade with "degenerate" modernism / Uwe Fleckner
  • The "liquidation" of "degenerate" art a two-pronged strategy? / Meike Hoffmann
  • "Paintings and sculptures by modern masters from German museums": the Galerie Fischer "degenerate" art auction of 1939 / Sandra Sykora
  • "Fingers crossed": how Georg Schmidt brought the moderns to the Kunstmuseum Basel / Tessa Rosebrock
  • The city of Liège's acquisitions in Lucerne: a remarkable example of individual democratic engagement / Grégory Desauvage
  • Public voices against the Fischer Auction versus behind-the-scenes sales strategies to "save modernism" / Ines Rotermund-Reynard
  • Taking a broader view: diverse perspectives on German modernist art at the Kunstmuseum Basel / Eva Reifert
  • The Basel acquisitions of "degenerate" art, then and now or, how history becomes history / Georg Kreis
  • Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Georg Schrimpf
  • a study in ambivalence / Andrea Bambi
  • Nationalgalerie Berlin compensating losses: Lovis Corinth, Georg Schrimpf, and Max Beckmann / Dieter Scholz
  • Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale) "and all being is flaming suffering" animal destinies by Franz Marc / Susanna Köller, Thomas Bauer-Friedrich
  • Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne Cologne Protests / Isgard Kracht
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle "pleasant and painful memories" Oskar Kokoschka's the bride of the wind / Ute Haug, Karin Schick
  • Von der Heydt-Museum Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal the confiscation of "degenerate" art in Barmen and Elberfeld / Anna Baumberger
  • Kestner-Museum Hannover Paula Modersohn-Becker and her first collectors in Hannover / Annette Baumann
  • Museum Folkwang Essen "...indeed, that soon nothing would be left but the bare walls" / Mathilde Heitmann-Taillefer
  • Kunsthalle Mannheim Marc Chagall's the pinch of snuff (rabbi)
  • a painting confiscated in Mannheim and the fate of two people associated with it / Mathias Listl
  • Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt's castaway modernism: losses and memories / Iris Schmeisser
  • Museum Wiesbaden on the futile effort to turn back time
  • an attempted reversal / Peter Forster

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