ART IN THE NAZI ERA

ART IN THE NAZI ERA
Chapter Three: Still “Disappeared”
AH 115

In Chapter One, we learned how Hitler, seeking to create the perfect Aryan by enforcing his own aesthetic ideas upon the German people, fiercely attacked modern art and art by Jews, labeling them as degenerate. In Chapter Two, we learned about the connection between the Bauhaus movement and degenerate art. Attendance in prior modules is not prerequisite to this semester’s offering.

In Chapter Three, we learn that while the Allies created special commissions to find degenerate artwork that remained unaccounted for after the war, much is still missing. Even where found, the aim of ultimately returning the works to their rightful owners, their families, or their respective countries has been circumvented. The return of the confiscated, family-owned Klimt being eventually returned to its owner-heir in the movie “The Woman in Gold,” was and is an uncommon occurrence to the unsettled and unsettling history of the once or still “disappeared” artworks. We turn to the chapter persistently driven by greed.

Presenter: Jeanne S. M. Willette, Ph.D.
is Professor of Art History at the esteemed Otis College of Art and Design, specializing in modern and contemporary art as well as critical theory. She is the author of the website Art History Unstuffed.

Developer:
Rochelle Ambersound

Date/Time:
Friday, June 15
1:30 – 3:30 PM

Location:
Irvine Station-Onken

Facilitators:
Susan Glass 949-854-8617
Sglass1@cox.net

Marcy Middler 949-338-2821
marcymiddler@yahoo.com