File:65483 19 Kaiser ENTARTETE KUNST Ausstellungsführer 1937-38 Degenerate art exhibition programme Voll Kirchner Heckel Hoffmann Schmidt-Rottluf "Any comment here is superfluous!" No known copyright restrictions.jpg

English: '“Any comment here is superfluous!”, Christoph Voll, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Eugen Hoffmann, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, etc. Page from the programme (Ausstellungsführer) for "Degenerate Art", an art exhibition first shown in München 1937. The visitor's guide was written by Fritz Kaiser and published by Verlag für Kultur- und Wirtschaftswerbung for the Amtsleitung Kultur of the Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP, the Nazi Party's propaganda central office in Germany 1926–1945. The brochure was published in 1938 when the exhibition went on tour to Berlin (shown in Kunsthalle Berlin from 26 February to 8 May) and other cities until 1941. No known copyright restrictions.
The Degenerate Art Exhibition (German: Die Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst") was organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich from 19 July to 30 November 1937. The exhibition presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition. Degenerate art was defined as works that "insult German feeling, or destroy or confuse natural form or simply reveal an absence of adequate manual and artistic skill". Another Degenerate Art Exhibition was hosted a few months later in Berlin, and later in Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Weimar, Halle, Vienna and Salzburg, to be seen by another million or so people.