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"Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.259.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0375 | Film ID: 210

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    "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition

    Overview

    Description
    The 1937 exhibit of ENTARTETE KUNST at the Archeological Institute in Munich, not far from the House of German Art, with paintings of modern artwork declared by the Nazis to be "degenerate" on the gallery walls. Museum visitors in the exhibit, walking, viewing the art on display. SS officer in FG. A quote taken from George Grosz and mockingly displayed on the Dada wall: "Nehmen Sie Dada ernst! Es lohnt sich." [Take Dada seriously! It's worth it.] EXT, visitors exiting building. Large sign on the building's facade: Ausstellung: "Entartete Kunst" / Eintritt frei [Exhibition: Degenerate Art / Admission free]. More shots of visitors inside the exhibit. Room 3 is prominently shown. Included in the filmed sequences are works by Paul Klee, Kurt Schwitters, Wassily Kandinsky, Otto Dix, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Eugen Hoffmann, and others.
    Duration
    00:00:30
    Date
    Event:  September 1937
    Production:  1937
    Locale
    Munich, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Library of Congress
    Contributor
    Director: Julien H. Bryan
    Camera Operator: Julien H. Bryan
    Biography
    Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish areas of Warsaw and Krakow and anti-Jewish signs in Germany. His footage appeared in March of Time theatrical newsreels. His photographs appeared in Life Magazine. He was in Warsaw in September 1939 when Germany invaded and remained throughout the German siege of the city, photographing and filming what would become America's first cinematic glimpse of the start of WWII. He recorded this experience in both the book Siege (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940) and the short film Siege (RKO Radio Pictures, 1940) nominated for an Academy Award in 1940. In 1946, Bryan photographed the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency in postwar Europe.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:03:03:16 to 01:03:34:07
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 210 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 210 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 210 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 210 Video: One Inch - NTSC
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 210 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 210 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
      Preservation 210 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 210 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
      Preservation 210 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 210 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
      Preservation 210 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 210 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Conditions on Use
    To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Julien Bryan donated part of his collection of 35mm nitrate film relating to his expeditions during the period of 1930-1950 to the Library of Congress on December 23, 1966. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased some reels from the collection at the Library of Congress in May 1991 for the Permanent Exhibition.
    Note
    The exhibition in Munich opened July 19, 1937 and closed in November, 1937. Julien Bryan filmed in Germany in September 1937 for The March of Time production, "Inside Nazi Germany." From the catalogue of the exhibit prepared by the LA County Museum of Art, it is clear that this footage of the Degenerate Art Exhibit was taken at the Munich exhibit, in the Archaeological Institute, which was almost opposite the House of German Art. The LA County Museum of Art catalogue identifies the artists and "Room 3" of the Munich exhibit which had written on the wall "Nehmen Sie Dada ernst. Es lohnt sich." Please see departmental subject files for more information.

    Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
    Copied From
    35mm
    Film Source
    Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 670
    Source Archive Number: 01 / FEB 328
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:47:00
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