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Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA: Art and Architecture in Nazi Germany
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Tuesday 13 June, 2017 Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA (President of Wolfson College and Provost of Gresham College, London) 'Art and Architecture in Nazi Germany' We still think of art in the ‘Third Reich’ as a kind of black hole, a period, 1933-1945, in which all the competent artists fled the country to live abroad, and nothing of any interest was produced. The Nazis were philistines who regarded all modern art as ‘degenerate’. This lecture brings this view of Nazism as hostile to modernity and modern art into question. It looks at Nazi attitudes to art and architecture and examines the work of some of the artists who stayed, in the wider context of European modernism and the artistic beliefs of Hitler, who regarded himself, as is well known, as an artist.
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