Hitler's Last Hostages

Hitler's Last Hostages
Author :
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Total Pages : 231
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781610397377
ISBN-13 : 1610397371
Rating : 4/5 (371 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hitler's Last Hostages by : Mary M. Lane

Download or read book Hitler's Last Hostages written by Mary M. Lane and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Hitler's obsession with art not only fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state--it was the core of his fascist ideology. Its aftermath lives on to this day. Nazism ascended by brute force and by cultural tyranny. Weimar Germany was a society in turmoil, and Hitler's rise was achieved not only by harnessing the military but also by restricting artistic expression. Hitler, an artist himself, promised the dejected citizens of postwar Germany a purified Reich, purged of "degenerate" influences. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he removed so-called "degenerate" art from German society and promoted artists whom he considered the embodiment of the "Aryan ideal." Artists who had produced challenging and provocative work fled the country. Curators and art dealers organized their stock. Thousands of great artworks disappeared--and only a fraction of them were rediscovered after World War II. In 2013, the German government confiscated roughly 1,300 works by Henri Matisse, George Grosz, Claude Monet, and other masters from the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive son of one of Hitler's primary art dealers. For two years, the government kept the discovery a secret. In Hitler's Last Hostages, Mary M. Lane reveals the fate of those works and tells the definitive story of art in the Third Reich and Germany's ongoing struggle to right the wrongs of the past.


Hitler's Last Hostages Related Books

Art as Politics in the Third Reich
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: Jonathan Petropoulos
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-02-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The political elite of Nazi Germany perceived itself as a cultural elite as well. In Art as Politics in the Third Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos explores the elite
Hitler's Last Hostages
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: Mary M. Lane
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-10 - Publisher: PublicAffairs

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Adolf Hitler's obsession with art not only fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state--it was the core of his fascist ideology. Its aftermath lives on to this d
ArtCurious
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Jennifer Dasal
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-15 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're a
Hitler as Political Artist
Language: en
Pages: 1199
Authors: Peter G. Clark
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-06 - Publisher: Outskirts Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“What Hitler was able to do to a crowd in 2-1/2 hours will never be repeated in 10,000 years!” —Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler’s early confidant “Hitler wa
Hitler
Language: en
Pages: 1034
Authors: Volker Ullrich
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Knopf

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Originally published: Germany: S. Fischer Verlag.