Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell review – art, desire and the rise of the Third Reich | Imagination
IIn the summer of 1937, two exhibitions sponsored by the Nazis opened in Munich. For the Degenerate Art exhibition, hundreds of confiscated works by banned modern artists, including Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, were collected: a mocking display of the alleged anti-German sentiment of contemporary culture. The show also served as a counterpoint to
