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Emil Nolde: Dance Around the Golden Calf
Emil Nolde: Dance Around the Golden Calf Dance Around the Golden Calf, oil painting by Emil Nolde, 1910; in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Germany.

Degenerate art

German history
Also known as: Entartete Kunst
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Degenerate art, term used by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe art that did not support the ideals of Nazism. It was also the title of a propagandistically designed Nazi exhibition of modern art held in Munich in 1937. With Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the systematic suppression of contemporary art quickly spread throughout Germany. Sanctions were created to forbid the exhibition and even the creation of any contemporary art not approved...

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