Nazi War on Modern Art

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Lecture

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Adults
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After the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the new government commenced its conservative cultural policy with breathtaking rapidity, closing the world-famous Bauhaus school of design, firing curators sympathetic to modern art from state museums, and organizing anti-modern exhibitions culminating in 'Degenerate Art" of 1937, which held modern art up to ridicule, while promoting a new, bombastic form of idealistic classicism that became the officially favored style of the regime.

Presented by:  Dr. Dennis Raverty is an Associate Professor at New Jersey City University where he teaches 19th and 20th-century art history, the art of West Africa, the diaspora and African American art, as well as the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe. An award-winning teacher, Raverty lives in New York City, and is currently co-authoring a book on American illustration with Dennis Dittrich, former president of the Society of Illustrators.