1. Adolf Ziegler was a German painter and politician.
20 Facts About Adolf Ziegler
1. 2.
Adolf Ziegler was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of what the Party described as "degenerate art", by most of the German modern artists.
3.
Adolf Ziegler was born in Bremen and died in Varnhalt, today Baden-Baden.
4.
Adolf Ziegler studied at the Weimar Academy from 1910 under master of technique Max Doerner at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
5.
Adolf Ziegler ultimately achieved the position of professor at the Munich Academy in 1933, when the Nazis came to power.
6.
Adolf Ziegler's works fitted the Nazi ideal of "racially pure" art, and, as the President of the Reich Chamber for the Visual Arts, he was entrusted with the task of eliminating avant-garde styles.
7.
Adolf Ziegler gave up the modern style for a representational and realistic style in the 1920s, during which time he had increased contact with Hitler.
8.
Adolf Ziegler exhibited eleven canvases at the Great German Art Exhibitions at the House of German Art between 1937 and 1943.
9.
Adolf Ziegler occupied several important administrative positions during the Third Reich.
10.
Adolf Ziegler was appointed Senator of the Fine Arts at the Reich Chamber of Culture in 1935.
11.
Adolf Ziegler's replacement of Honig as president was a clear signal of the Reich's growing distaste for nonconformity in the arts.
12.
Adolf Ziegler served as the president of the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1937.
13.
Adolf Ziegler headed a five-man commission that toured state collections in numerous cities, hastily seizing works they deemed degenerate.
14.
Adolf Ziegler managed to organize the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich in less than two weeks.
15.
However, his name must not be confused with that of Hans Severus Adolf Ziegler, who organized in May 1938 the Entartete Musik or Degenerate music exhibition in Dusseldorf.
16.
Adolf Ziegler was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp for six weeks.
17.
Adolf Ziegler repeatedly petitioned for reappointment to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1955 to 1958, but was denied because the Academy determined that he initially received the position due to Hitler's personal appointment.
18.
Adolf Ziegler wrote a response to Paul Ortwin Rave's first-hand accounts of the Entartete Kunst exhibition in Munich, arguing with Rave's assertions.
19.
Unable to revive his career, Adolf Ziegler lived quietly in the village of Varnhalt near Baden-Baden for the last years of his life.
20.
Adolf Ziegler died 11 September 1959, at the age of sixty-six.