The art collection reflects works from the German Empire, World War I, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and World War II. Many of the featured artworks are from German artists who worked either in ...

Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political. But in the first half of the 20th century—when Germany was experiencing rapid industrialization and militarization; the rise of nationalism ...

More than 20 months have passed since German authorities uncovered a hidden trove of hundreds of artworks that the Nazis looted during the Holocaust. Yet only 79 of those works, which were found in ...

In the past few weeks, a Gustav Klimt portrait hanging in a show at London’s National Gallery was denounced as Nazi loot. A museum director in Vienna resigned in protest over his staff’s ties to a new ...

Few who see Picasso's "The Actor "at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art know its complicated history. Paul Leffmann, a German Jewish businessman, sold it in 1938. "It used to hang in the home of my ...

Max Beckmann's biblical and political triptych Departure (right) hangs on the same wall as Adolf Ziegler's Four Elements triptych, which Hitler owned. One of the most unsettling rooms in an important ...

In July 1937, artist Marc Chagall discovered that his paintings were enjoying a star turn in a singularly unexpected venue — an exhibition organized by the Nazi Party in Munich, the birthplace of its ...

In 1937, two Nazi art shows aimed to teach the public to despise modernist art and show them what art should be. An exhibit at New York's Neue... 'Degenerate' Exhibit Recalls Nazi War On Modern Art ...