Vince Bank - Vince Bank: Bold Degenerate Art

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Bringing back to life paintings classified as "degenerate" by the Nazi regime in 1937, and considered destroyed or missing. Works have been freely copied from pictures taken at the time

Vince Bank: Degenerate Art

<h4></h4>This series consists of copying works classified as "degenerate" by the Nazi regime in 1937, and considered destroyed or missing, with the aim of bringing them back to life. With a new visual existence I wanted to pay homage to artists, sometimes unknown, whose work has been eliminated for ideological reasons.The University of Berlin has created a database (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://emuseum.campus.fu-berlin.de/eMuseumPlus">http://emuseum.campus.fu-berlin.de/eMuseumPlus</a>) which lists all works that were classified as “degenerate” by the Nazi regime. From this database, I have selected photos of works considered destroyed, or whose location is unknown, and have copied them freely especially because the only photos available are in black and white.<h4>Degenerate art</h4>In 1937, the Nazi regime organized the exhibition Entartete Kunst ("Degenerate Art") in Munich, then in other German cities, with the aim of denouncing works that escaped the Nazi ideological vision of art. The exhibition brings together works by hundreds of artists including Kandinsky, Kirchner, Chagall, Dix, who were accused of distorting reality, of propagating "foreign" ideals and of distancing themselves from official Nazi art which advocated a ideal of Aryan and heroic beauty. These works were described as "degenerate" for their formal and thematic aspects: expression of feelings, rejection of traditional conventions, critiques of society, creativity characteristic of modern movements such as expressionism, cubism, surrealism, new objectivity. They were also largely associated with the art of the Weimar Republic, which had allowed the diffusion of these avant-garde works in German national museums; The Entartete Kunst exhibition is a means for the Nazis to illustrate the period of disorder of the Weimar Republic stemming from the humiliation of 1918, a propaganda tool for the return to a martial and conquering order - imposing a uniform vision and controlled cultivation. These works were exposed to be ridiculed, and delivered to popular vindictiveness; they appeared alongside virulent, anti-foreign, anti-Jewish slogans and compared to “degeneration” or illnesses – notably in exhibition catalogs. At the same time, the regime organized exhibitions on German art, where heroism, ideal family, monumental or smooth or “pure” aesthetics dominated. German museums were therefore relieved of numerous pieces, part of which were used in the traveling exhibition Entartete Kunst; Around 20,000 were confiscated, then sold abroad, destroyed or lost. Part of it has survived and is once again on display in German museums.

Resurecting Degenerate Art

Erich Heckel "Sitzender Mann", 1913, 110 x 70, Dresden

Eugen Hamm "Bildnis des Malers M. Schwimmer", 60cm x 50cm 1923, Leipzig

Emil Nolde, "Mann und Weibchen", 1912, Essen

Karl Caspar, "noli me tangere", 80 x 64 cm, Ulm

Paula Modersohn-Becker "Worpsweder Mädchen" 72,5cm x 53,5 cm, 1900, Oldenburg

Johannes Tietz, "Doppelbildnis", before 1928, Dresden

Paul Camenisch, "Bildnis des Bildhauers Hermann Scherer", 114 X79cm, 1926, Essen 

Wulf Arnold, "Kinder vor dem Fenster", Chemnitz

Fritz Burmann, "Familie", 1923, Dusseldorf

Otto Mueller, "Olympia", 1924, Halle-S, 123 x 99,5 cm

Georg Jakob Best, "Doppelakt", 1930, Mannheim

Max Pechstein, "Akt am Strand", 1911, Krefeld

Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, "junger mal mit blauen Mitkatel", 1923, 100 x 80cm, Aachen

Fritz Skade "Frauenbildnis", 1925, Dresden 

Christian Rohlfs, "Die Anprobe", 1928, Hagen

Artur Erdle, "Zwei Halbakte", 79 x 62cm, Düsseldorf, before 1935

Otto Lange, "Tschum, der Katzenfreund", before 1921 ,Dresden 

Hanns Katz, "Frauenbildnis", 51 x 38 cm, Frankfurt am Main

Works

Title: Figuurid Creator: Herman, Helmi (autor) Date: 1962 Providing institution: Tartu Art Museum Aggregator: Estonian e-Repository and Conservation of Collections Providing Country: Estonia CC0 Figuurid by Herman, Helmi (autor) - 1962 - Tartu Art Museum, Estonia - CC0.

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3D Render of abstract frosted glass reflections

Title: Vorm III. Sarjast "Stereoskoopilised vormid" / Creator: Keerend, Avo (autor) / Date: 1969 / Providing institution: Eesti Kunstimuuseum / Aggregator: E-Varamu / Providing Country: Estonia / CC0 1.0 / Vorm III. Sarjast "Stereoskoopilised vormid" by Keerend, Avo (autor) - 1969 - Art Museum of Estonia, Estonia - CC0. https://www.europeana.eu/item/401/item_VUHX5DK5KOBYNBVFPXSCURS2AAUQIII2

An abstract painting in free and colorful brush strokes, as inspiration for a music composition, made by music composer Lucia Drocchi. A colored watercolour painting on paper I made in 2020; free art image for making an art print or wallpaper, by Fons Heijnbroek, Dutch painter artist.

Landscape of the Moon's First Quarter, 1943 by Paul Nash (d. 1946)

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Born during the summer when Sharon Tate was killedI paint with my 2 eyes, with my 2 hands, with various materials