HITLERISING ART.
NO GREEN SKIES, BLUE FIELDS. LONDON, Aug. 5. Pictures and statues considered “modernistic” by Herr Hitler are being removed from the galleries and museums of Prussia. General Goering has empowered the Minister of Education (Dr. Bust) to purge the galleries “without reference to considerations of the law o'f property.” Anticipating an outcry from curators, he has instructed Dr. Bust “to deal with relentless severity with all State officials concerned.” Everhard Hanfstandi, curator of the Berlin Art Gallery, has been removed from office. All pictures by Jewish artists are being removed. The test of stvlc, according to Herr Hitler, will be “clarity.” .As an artist himself Herr Hitler declares that be is unable to bear the sight of pictures showing “green skies, blue meadows, sulphur-yellow clouds and human beings resembling animals.” Even moderate “impressionists” will be banned from the new Temple of German Art in Munich.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 9
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