Just Like Old Times

CounterPunch sitka at teleport.com
Fri May 7 15:09:01 PDT 1999


First the Luftwaffe's back in the skies, now the Führer's favorite art is back on the walls....

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WEIMAR, Germany (Reuters) -

Sturdy blonde maidens toiling in the

fields and muscular mythological

figures feature heavily in Adolf

Hitler's art collection, which goes

on public display for the first time

Sunday.

The Nazi leader's favorite works of

art are being shown in the eastern

city of Weimar, Europe's City of

Culture in 1999, as part of an

exhibition called "The Rise and Fall

of the Modern."

Exhibition organizers say the Fuehrer's taste in paintings, which also ran to

rustic depictions of traditional German life, flora and fauna scenes and

wholesome mother and child paintings, showed his interest in "a kind of

anti-art."

The exhibition will not show works of explicit propaganda, such as paintings

of senior Nazis or war scenes, as most of these remain locked in a military

depot in Washington.

Hitler, who was himself interested in becoming an artist and failed repeatedly

to gain entrance to Vienna's art college as a young man, collected the 120

paintings by some 90 artists between 1937 and 1944.

The Nazi art is being exhibited in what was formerly known as the "People's

Community Hall," part of the "Gauforums," which were forums erected by

the Nazis as showpieces for the different Nazi regions.

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