Gurlitt's father took orders from Adolf Hitler to buy and sell so-called ' degenerateart' to fund Nazi activities.
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After the war, the Nazi art was left in store and the degenerateart took pride of place.
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Ever since 1937, it has been assumed that " degenerateart" was either sold abroad or destroyed.
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Initial speculation had been that most of the pictures were " degenerateart" looted or confiscated by the Nazis.
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London's Victoria and Albert Museum is publishing online two volumes which record what the Nazi regime did with confiscated ' degenerateart'.
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Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels recruited Gurlitt to sell the " degenerateart" abroad to try to earn cash for the state.
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After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the Nazis were determined to wipe out what they regarded as entartete Kunst, or degenerateart.
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A few months after his escape, Hitler was photographed in front of one of his collages at an exhibition of degenerateart in Munich.
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To acknowledge this landmark case, an exhibit will celebrate " degenerateart" in a corporate age: art and ideas on the fringes of intellectual property law.
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At least 300 paintings in the collection are thought to belong to a body of about 16,000 works once declared " degenerateart".
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The DegenerateArt exhibition is, after all, the biggest backhanded compliment ever paid to the avant garde.
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The DegenerateArt exhibition was real enough -but did it really mean the Nazis hated modern art?
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Others, including many of the works of art shown in the DegenerateArt exhibit, are believed lost for ever.
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After the Anschluss of Austria, and the previous year's DegenerateArt exhibition in Munich, the climate had become more conservative than ever.
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Other items in the trove had been denounced as " degeneratedart" by the Nazis, taken from museums and then sold abroad.
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Max Beckmann left Germany in 1937, just after Hitler's speech at the opening of the Nazi-organized " DegenerateArt" exhibition, which included twenty-eight works by Beckmann.