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Originally Posted by CarlosBS
What a loss to the dutch tradition!  |
I donīt know if itīs a loss.
But I remember this:
"Our patience with all those who have not been able to fall in line
is at an end. ... What you are seeing here are the crippled products
of madness, impertinence, and lack of talent. ... I would need
several freight trains to clear our galleries of this rubbish. ...
This will happen soon"
Adolf Ziegler,1937
President of the Reich Culture Chamber
On March 20th, 1939, the Degenerate Art Commission ordered over one thousand paintings and almost four thousand watercolors and drawings burned in the courtyard of a fire station in Berlin. Other works were auctioned off to the highest bidder (see example below of the auctioning of Van Gogh's 'Self Portrait' which was sold to the winning bidder, a Dr. Frankfurter for $US 40.000 at Gallerie Fisher, an Auction House in Lucerne, Switzerland).