11 Facts About Nazi art

Later, as the occupiers of Europe, the Germans trawled the museums and private collections of Europe for suitably "Aryan" Nazi art to be acquired to fill a bombastic new gallery in Hitler's home town of Linz.

The Nazi theft is considered to be the largest art theft in modern history including paintings, furniture, sculptures, and anything in between considered either valuable, or opposing Hitler's purification of German culture.

Nazi art theory explicitly rejected "materialism", and therefore, despite the realistic treatment of images, "realism" was a seldom used term.

Nazi art ideology was applied to the evaluation of musicians for hero status; musicians defined in the new German musical era were given titles of prophets, while their accomplishments and deeds were seen as direct accomplishments of the Nazi art regime.

Nazi art myth making and ideology was forced upon the new musical path of the Third Reich rather than truly embedded in the rhetoric of German music.

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Nazi art borrowed numerous scenes from other films, and presented them out of context from the original: for example, a scene of a Jewish businessman in the United States hiding money was accompanied with a bogus claim that Jewish men get taxed more than non-Jews in the United States, which was used to insinuate that Jews withhold money from the government.

Art dealer Martin Fabiani, whom after WWII was arrested for his involvement in Nazi art looting, moved mass quantities of pictures: drawings and paintings from Lisbon destined for New York, however they were seized by the Royal Navy which relocated them to Canada, in the charge of the Registrar of the Exchequer Court of Canada where they were to remain until the end of the war.

Nazi art packed his own artworks with countless other artists' works of his collection in a chaotic manner, with the result that the investigators thought that nothing in the collection was significant, and took nothing.

Nordau developed from this premise a critique of modern Nazi art, explained as the work of those so corrupted and enfeebled by modern life that they have lost the self-control needed to produce coherent works.

Nazi art had made a speech about it that summer, saying "works of art which cannot be understood in themselves but need some pretentious instruction book to justify their existence will never again find their way to the German people".

The Nazis claimed that degenerate art was the product of Jews and Bolsheviks, although only six of the 112 artists featured in the exhibition were actually Jewish.