10-05-2025
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- Wall Street Journal
‘Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks From the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin' Review: Capturing Seismic Shifts
Fort Worth, Texas
Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political. But in the first half of the 20th century—when Germany was experiencing rapid industrialization and militarization; the rise of nationalism and socialism; the defeat of World War I; the creation and swift fall of the liberal Weimar Republic; and a totalitarian Nazi regime that enforced its artistic taste by persecuting, exiling, even killing artists—German art certainly was.
