A new Tate Modern display deals with the Nazi regime’s violent hostility towards modernist art. From thousands of works removed from the collections of German museums, including pieces by Edvard Munch, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 650 were chosen to be shamed in the 1938 exhibition Degenerate Art, which attracted three million visitors.

Tate curator Dominic Willsdon discusses the paranoia and bigotry that lay behind the Nazis’ cultural policy, and the ways in which it sheds light on Modernism’s relationship to tradition and society.

Tate Modern Level 3
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