ART 3500 SCHENKHUIZEN FALL 2013 People and Terms to Remember: Art of the Third Adolf Hitler Joseph Goebbels Reich Classical Realism 1933-1945 National Socialism Arno Breker Art & Politics During the Nazi Regime Reich Ministry of Public Enlighten- Upon the formation of in the creation of art population of Ger- ment and Propa- the Nazi dictatorship in during the Nazi re- many alienated for 1933, Hitler began to gime endured the both political and manipulate the cultural pressure of acquiesc- racial reasons. life of Germany to em- ing to the National phasize traditional Ger- Socialistic influences Jews made up the man romantic values of the time. largest number of based on his fascination individuals expunged The works created by with art created before from German culture these Nazi artists WWI. and, as result, Jewish were exemplars of art was expelled by To articulate Nazi ideol- the construction of a the chamber in early ogy through films, me- new Germany which 1935. dia, radio, and music, harkened back to tra- Hitler produced the dition German ideals As degenerate and “Reich Ministry of Pub- by incorporating the alien works of art lic Enlightenment and genre of Classical were dismissed from Propaganda,” and ap- Realism. German culture, art- German sculptor, pointed Joseph Goeb- work in favor of the Nazi ideology sur- Arno Breker bels to lead the depart- state was promoted to rounding the promo- ment. reflect a newly con- tion of German art structed Germany German artists involved directly affected the Resources to Explore Further: Books: -Art of The Third Reich by Peter Adam -The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change by Huener, Jonathan, and Francis Nicosia -The Art World in Nazi Germany by Jonathan Petropolous -The Legend of Nazi Cinema by Eric Rentschler -Anti-Semitism and the Arts in Nazi Ideology and Policy by Alan Steinweis Cover of Leni Riefen- stahl’s infamous Nazi Web: propaganda film, Tri- http://www.ushmm.org/ (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website) umph of the Will .