This term refers to the artists who were born around 1900 and lived in Germany and the territories occupied by the Nazis. Their works were labeled as “degenerate” and their careers were destroyed by the Nazi dictatorship and World War II.
News
Art Against the Nazi Regime
New works by the Passau painter Josef Friedrich Limmer
Topic of the month
Lilli Fischel – Managing Director of the Karlsruhe Art Gallery – Part 1
Newsletter February
New works and a preview of the topics in March
The Lost Generation
The museum project
Our project to establish a museum for the Lost Generation in Karlsruhe fills a gap in Germany’s museum landscape. It reinforces the remembrance of persecuted and forgotten artists and makes the mechanisms of their exclusion visible.
Research
Provenance research
Many works from this period are at acute risk of being looted art
Biographical research
Only this can give forgotten artists a face again
Parcours of Resistance
Ardi Goldman has researched 100 biographies of people who rescued Jewish fellow citizens
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