In works like "Ships Departing," artist Paul Klee's childlike abstractions evoke music and the world of the imagination. Klee left Germany in 1933 and died in his native Switzerland in 1940. His work ...

The DEGENERATE! exhibit at Jewish Museum Milwaukee gives guests the opportunity to view modern art labeled as 'degenerate" by Hitler and the Nazis, plus learn how art was used as a tool of propaganda.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - What sort of art was coming out of Germany in 1943? What about 1945? Or '46? Set against other news coming out of Germany in those years, the question feels almost disrespectful.

On July 19, 1937, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party opened a propogandist Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, Germany. The gallery was filled with modern art, trussed up and defaced with mocking captions—a ...

Celebrate the opening of Always Modern, which explores the sensibility of exceptional works of modern German art and design from the Museum’s renowned collection. Works on view span from 1880 to the ...

Exploring the Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum. The Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, reveals how ...

In July 1937, artist Marc Chagall discovered that his paintings were enjoying a star turn in a singularly unexpected venue — an exhibition organized by the Nazi Party in Munich, the birthplace of its ...

At the Phoenix ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in August 2009, a woman named Ibo brought in a painting titled Silberne Sterne (Silver Stars) by Lyonel Feininger, an American-born artist who spent most of his adult ...

The must-see New Orleans art exhibit of the fall isn’t where you’d expect it. “Degenerate! Hitler’s War on Modern Art,” a collection of small avant-garde drawings, paintings and sculpture by modern ...

The idyllic landscape above and the luminous nude at the left are recent paintings by the once bitterest satirist in modern German art. In World War I, in which he fought unwillingly—he was a pacifist ...