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An Artist against the Third Reich - Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938 (Paperback)
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An Artist against the Third Reich - Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938 (Paperback)
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The conflict between National Socialism and Ernst Barlach, one of
the important sculptors of the twentieth century, is an unusual
episode in the history of Hitler's efforts to rid Germany of
'international modernism.' Barlach did not passively accept the
destruction of his sculptures, but protested the injustice, and
continued his work. Peter Paret's discussion of Barlach's art and
struggle over creative freedom, is joined to an analysis of
Barlach's opponents. Hitler's rejection of modernism, often
dismissed as absurd ranting, is instead interpreted as a internally
consistent and politically effective critique of liberal Western
culture. That some radical national socialists nevertheless
advocated a 'nordic modernism' and tried to win Barlach over,
indicates the cultural cross-currents running through the early
years of the Third Reich. Paret's closely focused study of an
artist in a time of crisis seamlessly combines the history of
modern Germany and the history of modern art. Peter Paret is Mellon
Professor in the Humanities Emeritus of the Institute for Advanced
Study in Princeton and Spruance Professor Emeritus at Stanford
University. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society,
which awarded him the Thomas Jefferson Medal and a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The German government has
awarded him the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit. His other
works include, German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945
(Cambridge, 2001), Imagined Battles: Reflections of War in European
Art (Univ, of NC, 1997), The Berlin Secession: Modernism and its
Enemies in Imperial Germany (Harvard, 1989), and Clausewitz and the
State (Oxford, 1985).
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