"Degenerate Art": Fate of the Avant-garde in Nazi Germany

Hard Cover. First Edition. 4to. Essays by Peter Guenther, Mario-Andreas von Luttichau, Christoph Zuschlag, George Mosse, Annegret Janda, Andreas Huneke, Michael Meyer & William Moritz. 9-7/8 x 12-1/4", beige cloth, 423pp, chronology, biblio., index, 750 illus., including 164 plates in full color. By the fall of 1937, the Nazis had removed 16,000 Avant-Garde works from German museums. 650 of these appeared in a touring 4-year exhibition called Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art). Artists like Beckmann, Chagall, Grosz, Kandinsky, Klee, Kokoscha, and founders of German Expressionism Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff were included. 150 surviving masterworks were included in a 1991 LACMA expedition from which this catalogue is derived. Essays in the book describe the original exhibition and its cultural and historical context during the Nazi era. A biography of Avant-Garde artists persecuted by the Nazis and the fate of works removed from German museums is detailed. Ink owner's name (Northwest artist Frank Okada) half-title, fine in very good, just slightly rubbed dust wrapper