Film
Hitler vs Picasso and the Others
- Director
- Claudio Poli
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 96 mins
Adolf Hitler wasn’t a huge fan of avant-garde art. Indeed, the Third Reich branded Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism and the like ‘degenerate’. The Nazis also set out eliminate works that were deemed to contradict the Aryan vision by looting them from across Europe.
This documentary is based on three main sources: the exhibition Degenerate Art, which opened in Munich in July 1937, and was the Nazi regime’s own exhibition of what was considered despicable, low art; the history of the Paris gallery 21 rue La Boetie, owned by Paul Rosenberg, a prominent Jewish art collector of ‘degenerate’ works; and the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt, which consisted of works of art plundered from Jewish families during the war.
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