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Mark Nicolou
Professor Adam Jolles
Modern Art Exhibitions
26 April 2011
Mark Nicolou
Professor Adam Jolles
Modern Art Exhibitions
26 April 2011
On 19 July 1937, Adolph Ziegler, president of the National Chamber of Fine Arts of the
NSDAP, opened the Ausstellung “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art Exhibition) in Munich at the
Archäologisches Institut. Throughout the exhibition space, the curators constructed didactic
criticisms and ridicule through quotes, commentary, and their methods of arrangement of the
more than 650 works. The words of Hitler and other NSDAP members appeared exclusively in
Deutsche Schrift (German script), their Fraktur typeface, while those of modernist artists and
catalogue as well as other NSDAP propaganda including pre-1937 degenerate art posters, the
Entartete Musik exhibition and Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) exhibition. In addition to
these carefully constructed displays, the use of typography was extended into other areas of
visual culture to engage in the “Total War” that Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels would
later declare.1 These exhibitions are among the many propagandistic efforts by the Reich to
instill nationalistic cultural policies into the German people and inoculate them from the scourge
of the avant-garde.
The simultaneous presence of these differing modes of dissemination by the German state
in Entartete Kunst signify the extent to which the NSDAP went to constrain and manipulate
cultural nationalism. It is my contention that the application and differentiation of the formal
aspects of written language, beyond their content, reflect a desire for cultural homogeneity in
Specifically, these different forms represent two distinct voices by means of typography, one of
refined, historically validated authority and another of modern degeneracy. Further, I posit that
the criticism of non-Fraktur typography, alongside the banning of avant-garde art relates the
controversies represent the nuanced concern of the new German government with the smallest
As described by Neil Levi, the 1935 Rosenberg-Goebbels dispute negotiated two variants
for developing a national art.3 Alfred Rosenberg, Commissar for Supervision of Intellectual and
Ideological Education of the NSDAP, supported a neoclassicist, realist mode of painting while
Nordic, anti-bolshevik expressionist style.4 In either case the goal was a German national art,
representative of the aims of the German people. Upon Rosenberg’s rhetorical success, all
A parallel exists to this debate regarding the treatment by the Reich of typography. The
point of contention was, again, modernity contrasted with history and nationalism. In the
Roman-Fraktur dispute, proponents of New Typography, such as Jan Tchishold and Paul Renner,
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supported a Romanized, streamlined, and universally legible type.5 As a counterpoint, the
conservative members of the German design community criticized the new type, and found the
Gothic-based Fraktur to be the most readable and “expressive of the content of the words.”6 An
influential text in this dispute was by Heinrich Wieynck, professor of typography at the
University of Dresden. His 1931 review “Guiding Principles on the Problem of Contemporary
Letterform Design” attacked the new Romanized types as “unGerman,” alien to the national
spirit, and most scathingly termed these types Schriftentartung (degenerate scripts).7 The
NSDAP settled on Fraktur as the official German typeface in 1935 requiring all official printings,
school textbooks, newspapers, and government subsidized publishers to switch to the German
type.8
Several designs were spread which reinforced the new official position of the
government. Design contests were held to establish acceptable variants of the Fraktur types; the
Element typeface was created specifically to complement the swastika (fig. 1). 9 Additionally,
slogans were spread which associated Fraktur with German nationalism (figs. 2 and 3).10 The
first reads: “German script is an indispensable protective weapon for Germans abroad against
Feel German
Think German
Speak German
Be German
Even in your Script11
Each example illustrates the proper scripts and encourages their use for explicitly German
purposes. The latter slogan presses the idea that not only is the script German, but one should
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embrace German-ness through the aesthetic of letters. In the following years the forced
acceptance and adherence to both of these policies was conducted on the battlefield of the
exhibition.
While the 1937 Entartete Kunst and its accompanying catalogue have been discussed in
relation to the Rosenberg-Goebbels debate, the treatment of typography in either of these has
remained largely unexplored. Among the most iconic images of this exhibition, the catalogue
cover presents a clear example of the defaming of modern art and script (fig. 4). The mocking
quotations around “KUNST” appear insignificant compared with the rough crayon sketch of the
text. The insult is immediately directed to the uncredited cover image of Otto Freundlich’s
improperly lighted Der neue Mensch (1912). The crayoned text implies that the creator posesses
a childlike skill or mind. The bold, capitalized, red word is effortlessly contrasted with the
type, as if to say, rather sardonically, “they will provide the art (‘Kunst’), we will be your guide
Within the catalogue, the concept is repeated. Each page spread contrasts the official
statement of the Nazi’s with the avant-garde art held within the exhibition (fig. 5). Without fail,
the left page reveals the authority of conservative criticism in Fraktur type, while the right side
contains thumbnails with brief quotes out of context and vague defamatory descriptions in
Modern typefaces. The page spread in figure 5 contains the opposition of the exhibition intent
with the images and ideas of avant-garde artists. Page two of the spread begins:
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What does the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition mean to do?
It means to give, at the outset of a new age for German people, a firsthand survey of the
gruesome last chapter of those decades of cultural decadence that preceded the great
change.
It means to appeal to the sound judgement of the people and thus to put an end to the
drivel and claptrap of all those literary cliques and hangers-on, many of whom would still
try to deny that we ever had such a thing as artistic degeneracy […]
It means to expose the common roots of political anarchy and cultural anarchy and to
unmask degenerate art as art-Bolshevism in every sense of the term […]12
The facing page contains three George Grosz graphic works, a Marc Chagall painting, and
another unidentified painting; the upper left corner contains a quote that reads:
quality of rationalism in those who agree with the state positions, and the offsetting of
degeneracy upon Bolshevism. By this first spread of explanatory text, the reader/viewer can be
sure what the official position is on art and politics, but with an additional subtlety the way in
which the typefaces cast the elegance of German perfection and National Socialist modernity in
opposition to the old decadence of Weimar culture, to be found in politics, art, and type.
Within the exhibition space itself, these contrasting voices of authority and degeneracy
are continued. In the main entrance Ludwig Gies’s Kruzifixus (c.1921) is briefly explained (fig.
6). Attached to the base of the cross a Fraktur title-card reads “Christus von Prof. Gies, Berlin.”
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This work appears to be the only one which uses the official script to identify the work, inviting
the comparison to the traditional tablet attached to the cross. Completing the comparison, the
title card identifies Germany, by means of its official script, as the murder of degenerate art.
Below this is the continued attack which leaves the newly arrived visitor with no other way to
read the object — below a photo of the sculpture in situ, it states: “This horror hung as a war
memorial in the cathedral of Lübeck.” Beside the work a larger placard is directed generally at
all the work in the room. At the top it implores the viewer; it states, “Man staune!” (‘Marvel!’ or
‘It’s amazing!’)14 Behind the text a Bauhaus inspired, roughly painted question mark contradicts
or mocks the admonishment to “Marvel!” and instead encourages an act more like gawking.
Because this sight introduces the exhibition, this is the attitude intended to be repeated by the
viewer.
In the third and largest room hangs the infamous mockery of Wassily Kandinsky’s Der
schwarze Fleck (1921). Like the installation of Gies, this piece establishes the proper reading of
the images and the text around it (figs 7 and 8). In ridiculing a modernist artwork by recreation,
the text above in both content and style can be taken the same way. The George Grosz quote
reads: “Take Dada seriously! it’s worth it.” The derisive employment of the quote is doubled by
the uneven and inconsistent type within which it is written. A discussion of the misplacement of
a quote about dada over an Expressionist Kandinsky is reductive of the larger situation.
It is, however, significant that the lyrical quality of the text is reflected by the lines of the
mock painting. Using the same movement of the composition, the quote follows an organic flow
atop the panting. Further, the text is rendered in the same paint and varied line weights as the
Kandinsky, and, although no color images exist, a secondary color is present in the text which is
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visible as a grey-tone in the apertures of the letters of the word “Dada.” Similarly the tittle of the
‘i’ in “Sie” extends irrelevantly upward as those part of the painting as well as the exclamation
mark, which leans to the right like the abstract forms below. Although the text was intended to
harshly critique the work, the application of the painting’s principles reflect an understanding of
Also on this wall, two dada publication covers are present: Der Dada numbers 2 and 3
(figs. 9 and 10). Each of these images combines a multitude of types, sizes, and compositional
methods. This appears to be a tactic of the curators to validate the criticism above; however to
even a mildly discerning eye, the differences are vast. The dada constructions employ the
methods of photomontage and collage to create a disorienting display that remains relatively
legible. The Grosz quote is connected to the staggered type of Der Dada No. 3 by the inclusion
of Grosz’s dada works. The page lists the “Directeurs” of the journal as “groszfield,”
“hearthaus,” and “georgemann;” the puppet-like figure, beside a Richard Huelsenbeck poem, is
further credited to Grosz-Heartfield. With this direct comparison, a viewer approaching closely
might find the preposterous quote above reconciled with the page below. Because the larger text
dominates the space, it informs the reading and ridicules the smaller image.
On the south wall of the same room, a similar technique of criticism is attempted (fig.
This text is preceded by the neatly and properly written: “They say it themselves:” it continues,
“We act as if we were painters, poets, or whatever, but what we are is simply and ecstatically
impudent. In our impudence we take the world for a ride and train snobs to lick our boots!”
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While the wobbling text matches the varying heights of the sculptures below, their
intentional placement defies a logical design order. The first sculpture under the text is Eugen
Hoffmann’s Mädchen mit blauem Haar, (c. 1919), followed by Rudolf Belling’s Dreiklang
(1924), and finally returning to Hoffmann, his Weiblicher Akt. The intentional placement of the
Hoffmann sculptures on either side of the Belling creates the uneven ground upon which the text
lies. If the Hoffmann sculptures were placed together (switching the Belling with Hoffmann’s
Weiblicher Akt) both visual and oeuvreic order would be restored. This subtle feature
compounds the confusion of the multivalent display techniques to prevent the viewer from
The official voice is forcefully established and distinguished in this exhibition space.
Again, in moving closer, the viewer finds the two voices amongst each object. In the Cubo-
Constructivist Walter Dexel painting, Lokomotive, the perceived simplicity of the image is
reflected in typography of the artist’s name, title, museum collection, year, and inflated Weimar
cost (fig. 12).15 In an attempt to cast this and all other works taken from museum collections as
degenerate, a secondary level of criticism is imposed upon the museum that purchased the work.
All of the pre-Nazi history of the work is rendered in a sans serif, Roman type and contrasted
with a red letter Fraktur placard below. As with many paintings throughout the exhibition, it
reads: “Paid for by the taxes of the German working people.” The intended effect of this was
All of these subtle techniques represent the first time the NSDAP exposed a large number
techniques, begun in this successful exhibition, were honed to serve broader uses and sharper
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criticisms. The following section will examine the previous methods of typographic propaganda
Before the 1937 exhibition, the NSDAP attempted other less expansive exhibitions of the
art which they found to be degenerate. Surviving Entartete Kunst posters from Dortmund in
1935 and Munich in 1936 express the same ideological critique of modern art and modern type
refined by the culminating show in 1937. By directly contrasting the official writing with the
cartoonish quality in the Dortmund poster, the effect of the alienation of the art is established;
before entering the actual exhibition, the viewer knows how to read the display (fig. 13). The
poster states: “Special Show: Degenerate Art. Services provided by Judeo-Bolshevik cultural
poisoning.”16 A further tie to the differentiation between the legitimate and illegitimate elements
emphasized in this poster are evident in the diacritical mark over the ‘u’ in ‘K!nst.’ This is a
vestigial element from blackletter typefaces, such as Fraktura, which helps differentiate a ‘u’
from an ‘i.’ This establishes a subtle mockery of the new typefaces as well as the new art.
Similarly, the poster for the 1936 Munich exhibition, held at the White Hall Police
Department, employs elements of Russian Suprematist design to create a parody of the avant-
garde (fig. 14). The poster clearly mocks and reverses El Lissitzky’s lithography Beat the Whites
with the Red Wedge (1919) (fig 15). Much like the treatment of fellow Russian Kandinsky in the
later Munich show, Lissitzky’s work is reversed and recast as degenerate. Rather than the red
wedge attacking the white, the white (perhaps Aryan) wedge assaults the red circle. The poster
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insults the design principles of modernism while informing the viewer of the degenerate features
of Jewish and Bolshevik art by stating: “Degenerate Art exhibition of “cultural documents” of
Bolshevist and Jewish subversion.”17 The insult continues: “What we see in this interesting-
Both of these works use the authority and supremacy of the government in constructing
degeneracy. By creating a spectacle of Otherness, the viewer, even of the exhibition poster,
becomes aware of the proper response. Elements of each of these types were later used to
strengthen the message in the 1937 exhibition from the mockery of Kandinsky to the divergent
textual voices of aesthetics. The multifaceted methods of converging art and typography are not
unique, thus this technique was expanded after the culminating 1937 show.
As the 1937 Entartete Kunst exhibition traveled to other locations after Munich, at least
one well documented feature helped to externalize the typography insult of the exhibition within.
Although no subsequent incarnation of Entartete Kunst was documented as well as the opening
in Munich, several photographs of the façades in later exhibitions have been retained. The
lettering on these façades also reveals the increasing reliance upon typography to distance the
The original show in Munich, at the Archäologisches Institut, used a sign that read:
‘Ausstellung “Entartete Kunst” Eintritt frei’ (Exhibition: “Degenerate Art” Free admission) (fig.
16). This signs expresses its official status with its Fraktur lettering and its defamation of the
avant-garde as degenerate with no typographic insult to the art. Rather, it relies on those
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techniques within. In the traveling of this exhibition, the façade lettering came to reflect the
interior insults upon the art in similar ways to the exhibition catalogue and the walls of the
Munich show.
By the end of the Munich exhibition in November 1937, the Entartete Kunst exhibition
was taken over by the Reichspropagaleitung (Reich Propaganda Directorate) and became more
outwardly direct about the conflicting voices within the show. The first exhibition after Munich
and the administrative transfer was held in Berlin from 26 February until 8 May 1938 at the Haus
der Kunst. The sign for this show divided the two voices and asserted its official status more
clearly than in Munich (fig. 17). The sign read: “Ausstellung der NSDAP bau Berlin, Entartete
Kunst” (Exhibition of the Nazi Party Building Berlin, Degenerate Art). As with its predecessor,
the top line was composed in the official typeface and claimed credit as the NSDAP in the title.
Furthering their assertion of authority, below the sign hung a banner emblazoned with a swastika.
Between these two official symbols (text and flag) the words “Entartete Kunst” were written in a
clumsy, sharp-pointed, type. This clear distinction between these two conflicting voices is
The Düsseldorf exhibition, held from 18 June to 7 August 1938, at the Kunstpalast
Ehrenhof used a very similar sign, yet without the swastika (fig. 18). Atop the building however,
was a much more didactic method of differentiation: Arno Breker’s Aurora, which still perches
on the edge of the Kunstpalast façade. Breker was considered to be the ideal sculptor by the
standards of the Reich.18 In this example, the comparison becomes clear, although there is no
degenerate work on the exterior, the mock-degenerate text creates a contrast with the proper form
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shown above it. While other exhibitions employ similar techniques, these two earlier shows best
demonstrate the development of the ideas begun on the walls of the Munich show.
of typography, the NSDAP’s The Eternal Jew exhibition yields one of the most memorable
examples of their dedication. Held in November 1937 at the Library of the German Museums in
Munich, the exhibition imposed a strong textual degeneracy upon the Jewish race. Rather than
to distance the desired nationalism of the German people. Apart from the frequent use of the
stereotype of the greedy, Bolshevik Jew, they further removed the Jews by alienating their
language. The posters and entrance banner for the exhibition employed a pseudo-Hebraic
typeface which, while legible is awkward and antagonistic to a well trained German viewer (fig.
19 and 20). This Hebrew mimicry made a major resurgence after the 1941 decree that all Jews
must wear a yellow patch with the word “Jude” (fig. 21). This example of the NSDAP social
policy is clearly derived from the typographical propaganda which reached maturity in 1937 in
Entartete Kunst.
The 1938 Entartete Musik exhibition, also held in Düsseldorf’s Kunstpalast Ehrenhof,
employed the expanded propagandistic techniques which where largely developed in the 1937
Entartete Kunst exhibition. This exhibition targeted Jewish composers and black jazz musicians.
The gallery space contained various paintings and insults directed toward the music and the
musicians. In one installation example, four elements of conservative cultural policy coalesce
(fig. 22). A painting hangs off-center overlapping two banners of crudely painted text which
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read: “the Jew Arnold Schönberg as Kokoschka saw him.” To the right, the composer’s atonal
composition is expressed as sheet music and is further mocked by the presence of the lyrics to a
simple child’s song: “Steht auf, ihr lieben Kinderlein” (“Rise, my dear little children”). With this
relatively simple display, the concepts of Jewishness, modern painting, avant-garde music, and
new typography were simultaneously condemned. This show brought the elements of
Conclusion
All of the propaganda techniques developed from the pre-1937 posters through the
multiple incarnations of Entartete Kunst, to Der Ewige Jude, the 1938 exhibition brought
together these typographic installation elements to discredit the artistic merit of painters,
musicians, Jews, and Communists. All of these perceived forms of degeneracy easily were
attacked in a single exhibition space which was initiated with the major exposure and careful
construction of the 1937 Munich Entartete Kunst exhibition. Through increasingly complex
developments of typographic propaganda, the NSDAP established two voices. The first voice
was the official, historical, and properly nationalistic Fraktur which operated in an administrative
capacity to communicate the ideals of the Reich to the German people; they were so effective in
the use of this typeface that it is seldom used today without evoking Nazi Germany. The other
voice, that of the “degenerate” avant-garde, was separated from any fascist ideologies. The
freedom of these typefaces to reflect pluralism, personal identity, and formally expressive
elements is characteristic to their resistance of conservative cultural fascism. The typefaces used
in Entartete Kunst separate these two voices as the NSDAP desired. However, the compared
legacies of the Third Reich and the so-called degenerate artists have been settled.
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All of these complex methods and results of NSDAP’s propaganda for cultural policy are
derived from this highly popular experiment of exhibition installation. By developing and
perfecting the methods which helped to draw over two million visitors in four months to the
Munich exhibition, the new German Reich was able to expand its desire for control into other
cultural critiques. Following the 1937 show, the attack was extended into the social policies
imposed upon Jews and assisted in moving toward their goal of ‘Total War’ with the Entartete
Musik exhibition by attacking all of their enemies simultaneously on the Eastern and Western
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1The idea of total war was declared in Goebbels 1943 speech “Nation, Rise Up, and Let the
Storm Break Loose.” See Calvin College’s German Propaganda Archive.
2See Neil Levi, “‘Judge for Yourselves!’-The ‘Degenerate Art’ Exhibition As Political
Spectacle.” October (1998: 85), 41-64 and Peter Bain and Paul Shaw, Blackletter: Type and
National Identity (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998).
3 Levi, 45.
4 Ibid., 46.
5For a discussion of New Typography, see Christopher Burke’s Active Literature: Jan Tschichold
and New Typography (London: Hyphen, 2007) and Paul Renner: The Art of Typography ( New
York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998).
6Jeremy Aynsley, Graphic Design in Germany: 1890-1945 (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2000), 181.
7 Ibid., 185.
8 Bain, 44.
9 Burke, Paul Renner, 150.
10 Ibid. Burke’s Translation.
11 Ibid.
12Stephanie Barron, “Facsimile of the Entartete Kunst Exhibition Brochure” trans. David Britt in
‘Degenerate Art’: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany (Los Angeles: Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, 1991), 360. Emphases in original.
13 Ibid, 361.
14Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau “Entartete Kunst, Munich 1937: A Reconstruction” trans. David
Britt in ‘Degenerate Art’: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany (Los Angeles: Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991), 51.
The text continues: “The concentrated simplification of all the motifs is not meant as a halting
primitivism but it is a deliberate effort to convey aesthetic stimuli . . . . The spiritual values too
are so profound and individual that they would in themselves make the work one of the richest
documents of modern religious experience . . . . It would be hard to find a symbol that would
convey to posterity with greater power and depth the significance of the Great War and its fallen
heroes.”
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15The cost of 1000ൂ refers to Deutsche Papiermarks, the currency of the Weimar Republic
which hit a period of hyperinflation in 1923. At the height of this inflation a pound of meat cost
36 Billion ൂ. However, it is unknown at what point of the inflation period each of the works
was procured.
16 My translation.
17 My translation.
18 Barron, 18. Breker was also a juror for the 1937 Große Deutsche Kunst Ausstellung.
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Figure 9. Raoul Hausmann, title page of Der Dada, no. 2, December 1919.
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Figure 18. Sign for Entartete Kunst on the façade of the Kunstpalast Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf, 1938.
Figure 19. Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) Exhibition poster, 1937.
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Figure 20. Sign for Der Ewige Jude on the façade of the Libraries of the German Museums,
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Figure 21. Yellow Star of David badge with Hebraic lettering of “Jude”.
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Figure 22. Exhibition installation of composer Arnold Schönberg in Entartete Musik, 1938.
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