Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles County Museum of Art, is a fine example of a genre that often and easily goes wrong: the politically didactic art show. Its curator, Stephanie Barron, in 1991 created a survey named "Degenerate Art." Her subject then was the censorship, repression and persecution of modern artists in Hitler's Germany, culminating in the infamous "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") show of 1937, in which hundreds of works by artists from Oskar Kokoschka to Henri Matisse were pilloried with insulting wall labels. "Exiles and Emigres" is the sequel to Barron's earlier exhibition. With her associate, the German scholar Sabine Eckmann...
...Hitler, one might say, had presented the Allies with an immense cultural gift, not that everyone appreciated it. And it wasn't just painters and sculptors. After the Bauhaus, the leading experimental visual-arts school in Germany, was suppressed, some of its leading lights--Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy--moved to America, where their example and teaching changed its architecture, making New York City and Chicago the epicenters of the postwar International Style. And the academic study of art history in America, which had been fairly larval before the 1930s, was transformed...
...barbarism, the degradation that helpless, innocent human beings suffered at the hands of Hitler's Nazi butchers is still horrendous enough. Now to learn that the Swiss banking system is holding on to millions in assets that belong to Holocaust victims or their heirs [WORLD, Feb. 24] is just another example of man's inhumanity. I hope that those fighting to right this wrong persevere and that justice prevails. NANCY L. MATSEY Grafton, West Virginia...
...capacity for indifference and criminal behavior dwells in all of us, but evil can thrive only under evil leadership. Amid all this finger pointing, who is left off the hook? Adolf Hitler. LISA WALLERSTEIN Livermore, California...
...real issue is broader than blocked Jewish assets and laundered money. It is the conflict between neutrality and moral integrity. My family was German, anti-Nazi and somewhat linked to the assassination attempt on Hitler. In July 1944 they had no other choice than to flee to Switzerland and seek refuge with relatives. Big surprise: the Swiss authorities accepted the four children in the family but turned back the five adults, who were caught, delivered to the Gestapo and imprisoned. When the U.S. Army closed in on Germany, my father succeeded in escaping, but other family members, along with other...