Only the head and part of a shoulder remain in "Schwangere," Emy Roeder's statue of a pregnant woman. The work is part of "Degenerate Art: Modern Art on Trial Under the Nazis" at the Picasso Museum in ...

In 1943, Pablo Picasso received a desperate letter from an artist called Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss. “It’s all too late,” she wrote. “I have just been told that Otto has been sent to the north. Please do ...

It might seem paradoxical, or at least ironic, that a museum dedicated to one of the most antinomian of twentieth-century artists, Pablo Picasso, should be housed in one of the grandest of Parisian ...

In 1937, two Nazi art shows aimed to teach the public to despise modernist art and show them what art should be. An exhibit at New York's Neue... 'Degenerate' Exhibit Recalls Nazi War On Modern Art ...

At the direction of the Nazi regime, thousands of works of art across Europe were confiscated, destroyed or sold to fund the Nazi war machine. Others were used as propaganda – promoting the idea that ...

A new exhibition on the “degenerate” art disavowed by the Nazis has opened in Paris. ‘L’art dégénéré’ is now on at the Musée Picasso in Paris and is the first show in France dedicated to the art which ...

In 1937, the Nazis curated the Entartete Kunst, which was a propagandistic exhibition created by Joseph Goebbels to discredit avant-garde art in Germany. The exhibition took place alongside another ...

The Expressionist Emil Nolde (1867–1956) is arguably the most famous “degenerate artist”. No other artist had as many works confiscated, nor were their works as prominently displayed in the early ...

PARIS – If all you saw of the exhibition at the Picasso Museum here was the art itself, you would recognize at once that here are wonderful canvases, powerful canvases, from many decades and countries ...