May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
ORIGINAL CATALOGUE (ENTARTETE KUNST.) Kaiser, Fritz. Führer durch die Austellung Entartete Kunst . . . zusammengestellt von der Reichspropagandaleitung, Amtsleitung Kulture. Sie wird in den großeren Stäadten aller Gaue gezeicht werden. Reproductions. 8vo, original stapled pictorial wrappers, unusually clean. Berlin: Verlag für Kultur- und Wirtschaftswerbung, (1936)
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The original catalogue for the famous exhibition of "degenerate art" mounted by the Third Reich, lambasting the works of Kokoschka, Kirchner, Grosz, Klee, and others accused of producing "poisonous art." Over 5,000 paintings and 12,000 works of graphic art were seized from galleries and museums. In 1938, several pieces were auctioned to raise money for the Reich; most were publicly burned.