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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness - Insanity, Art and Hitler’s First Mass-Murder Programme (Hardcover)
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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness - Insanity, Art and Hitler’s First Mass-Murder Programme (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R520
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‘A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The
little-known story of Hitler’s war on modern art and the mentally
ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German
psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of
works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and
delight the world. The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called,
inspired a new generation of artists, including Paul Klee, Max
Ernst and Salvador Dali. What the doctor could not have known,
however, was that these works would later be used to prepare the
ground for mass-murder. Soon after his rise to power, Hitler—a
failed artist of the old school—declared war on modern art. The
Nazis staged giant ‘Degenerate Art’ shows to ridicule the
avant-garde, and seized and destroyed the cream of Germany's modern
art collections. This action was mere preparation, however, for the
even more sinister campaign Hitler would later wage against
so-called "degenerate" people, and Prinzhorn's artists were caught
up in both. Bringing together inspirational art
history, genius and madness, and the wanton cruelty of the
fanatical "artist-Führer", this astonishing story lays bare the
culture war that paved the way for Hitler's first extermination
programme, the psychiatric Holocaust.
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