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Comment | The 1930s all over again? Trump and ‘Entartete Kunst’ revisited

There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe

John-Paul Stonard
28 March 2025
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George Grosz’s Metropolis (1916-17) was in the 1937 exhibition Entartete Kunst (degenerate art), mounted by the Nazis to discredit Modern art they saw as unpatriotic © Estate of George Grosz, Princeton/Adagp, Paris, 2024/Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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