Problem: Choose the statements below that are TRUE about art in Nazi Germany.
Note: There are FOUR correct answers.
- Group of answer choices The National Socialists discovered that art not only could carry a political message but was also able to program people's emotions and direct their behavior.
- Artists in the official exhibit with Nazi-approved art included Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
- All art produced within this era in Germany does not deserve scholarly attention; this is appropriate since art was not important in the Third Reich.
- The arrangement of the "Degenerate Art" exhibit, ironically, borrowed from the Dadaists, a group it was seeking to condemn.
- Hitler's revolution was almost entirely political, motivated for societal change only on the level of removing certain groups of people from society.
- The attendance of the official, state-sponsored exhibition of Nazi-approved art far outnumbered that of the "Degenerate Art" exhibit.
- The cultural infiltration of every sphere of life never ceased, including public buildings and stamps, as well as children's toys and poems taught in school.
- Thousands of artworks were publicly burned as part of the Nazi's condemnation of modern art.