The Virtual Museum in Karlsruhe

LOST GENERATION ART

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Politically explosive works by Josef Friedrich Limmer
Art Against the Nazi Regime New works by the Passau painter Josef Friedrich Limmer
Lilli Fischel – the first woman to lead a State Art Gallery Colorized detail
Topic of the month Lilli Fischel – Part 2: Her Struggle for Modern Art
Using AI for our project
Newsletter March / April New works by Henri Epstein and David Friedmann
The Lost Generation

This name represents the artists who were born around 1890 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.

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
Provenance research Many works from this period are at acute risk of being looted art
Biographical research
Biographical research Only this can give forgotten artists a face again
Parcours of Resistance
Parcours of Resistance Ardi Goldman has researched 100 biographies of people who rescued Jewish fellow citizens

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