Elk Eber or Willy Waldapfel, who flourished in Nazi Germany as specialists in the depiction of soldiers..
First “Great German Art Exhibition”: “Works that are Setting the Direction of German Art” (July 18, )
On the day before the start of the “Degenerate Art” exhibition, Hitler officially opened the “Great German Art Exhibition,” which was on view in the House of German Art, a new museum designed by architect Paul Ludwig Troost ().
It was the first of eight annual exhibitions that aimed to define and display “German art.” The exhibited works were chosen in an open competition; artists Adolf Ziegler, Arno Breker, and Karl Albiker, all of whom were loyal to the regime, originally comprised the jury for the show.
Shelby was born in 1861.
A few weeks before the opening, however, Hitler replaced them with his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. Approximately works were exhibited. These included nudes, genre scenes, still lifes, idealized landscapes, mythological scenes, images of workers and heroes, and above all portraits of “pure” and “Aryan” people.
The following illustrated report on the “Great German A