Word: kunstlied
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...Albert Museum organized a great retrospective exhibit. In Germany, where the sway of the Jugendstil (as art nouveau was called there and in Austria) had been total and the counterblow of the 1920s most radical, rediscovery began in 1958 with a big show at Munich's Haus der Kunst. In the U.S. the comprehensive 1960 "Art Nouveau" exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art launched the rediscovery...
...more than $60 million a year, three times what it was before the war. Prices have doubled in the past two years. These startling statistics were underlined last week by the breakneck rush of business at the fourth annual Art and Antiques Fair at Munich's Haus der Kunst, which 'was for many years a U.S. officers' club. 0f Gothic figures and paintings, one in four was imported from the U.S. It was a far cry from the days just after World War II, when starving German families were trading heirlooms for food, and antique treasures drained...
...salt mines and returned them to Munich. A few years later, more than 200 of the Alte Pinakothek's best paintings went on an extended European tour, to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels. Then 450 of its best works went on permanent exhibition in the Hitler-built Haus der Kunst, while the old building, its true home, was only a dismal rendezvous for petty gangsters and furtive lovers. When plans got underway to clean up the ruin and replace it with a technical university, a groundswell of impassioned opposition pushed the local Bavarian government to rebuild the Alte Pinakothek...
...Real name: Haus der Kunst. Anti-Nazi artists coined the derisive nickname when Hitler filled the hall with his own approved brand of naturalistic...
Spectators giggled nervously, awed by the bare austerity of the Kunst rooms, or embarrassed to find that the Kitsch exhibit almost exactly reproduced their rooms at home. Sighed one onlooker: "It's so gezellig [cozy]." Snapped Director Wijsenbeek: "It's not gezellig. It's stuffy." The art critic of The Hague's Het Vaterland hedged: "The line between Kunst and Kitsch isn't always easy to draw...