“The Bauhaus. That was an idea, more, an ideal. No difference between draftsmen and artists. Everyone together in a new community, we should build the cathedral of the future. I wanted to be a part of it. And something happened that freed us. We did not learn to paint, but learned to see anew, to think anew, and at the same time we learned to know ourselves” - Re Soupault I’ve been meaning to do an episode about the Bauhaus, which is central to the aesthetics of the Weimar Republic and change...
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“The Bauhaus. That was an idea, more, an ideal. No difference between draftsmen and artists. Everyone together in a new community, we should build the cathedral of the future. I wanted to be a part of it. And something happened that freed us. We did not learn to paint, but learned to see anew, to think anew, and at the same time we learned to know ourselves” - Re Soupault I’ve been meaning to do an episode about the Bauhaus, which is central to the aesthetics of the Weimar Republic and change...
Degenerate Art, Hitler's culture war and the greatest modern art show ever
The Weimar Spectacle
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7 months ago
Degenerate Art, Hitler's culture war and the greatest modern art show ever
On 30 June 1937, Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister for Propaganda and Enlightenment, authorised the Director of the Reich Chamber for Culture, Adolf Ziegler, to select and confiscate paintings and sculptures from public collections for a major exhibition on 'degenerate art'. Ziegler said “What's been gathered together in [this] exhibition constitutes the portrayal of a true witches' sabbath and the most frivolous spiritual-artistic cultural bolshevism and a portrayal of the triumph of subhu...
The Weimar Spectacle
“The Bauhaus. That was an idea, more, an ideal. No difference between draftsmen and artists. Everyone together in a new community, we should build the cathedral of the future. I wanted to be a part of it. And something happened that freed us. We did not learn to paint, but learned to see anew, to think anew, and at the same time we learned to know ourselves” - Re Soupault I’ve been meaning to do an episode about the Bauhaus, which is central to the aesthetics of the Weimar Republic and change...
