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December 2025



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This illustration was also created by ChatGPT, based on the following prompt: 'Create a human-like robot head with the features of the Mona Lisa, showing neural networks inside.' The great thing about it: you can use these 'creations' royalty-free for your own website or newsletter...
 
 
 

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Our website was reprogrammed in just one week and now has an even more modern look. How was that possible? With the help of ChatGPT's artificial intelligence. Using this AI, we also receive 20-page expert reports on potential works for our collection in a matter of seconds.

With ChatGPT, we have created software programs that scan galleries and auction houses worldwide for works that fit our collection.

Once we have decided to purchase a work, ChatGPT generates a print-ready biography of the artist within seconds.

AI is a tool that can save an immense amount of time, and for that reason, AI will have a very significant impact on the future of work.

New in this newsletter: 'Topic of the Month,' which we will now be featuring here on a regular basis.


Alfred Frank

Alfred Frank was a graphic artist, painter, and sculptor from Baden who was sentenced to death as a Communist by the People's Court in Dresden in November 1944 and executed by guillotine six weeks later.

The original version of the final letter to his wife can be seen on our website—an impressive document that he wrote on the morning of his execution.

We were able to acquire three etchings from his early period, featuring Baden and Bavarian motifs.


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Village Scene – circa 1920
 
 
 
Clara Arnheim

Clara Arnheim was a Berlin-based landscape painter and a pioneer of female artistic emancipation.

After the Nazis rose to power, she was banned from painting and exhibiting. In July 1942, at the age of 77, she was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where she died a few weeks later as a result of the prison conditions.

Although Clara Arnheim was well-known in Germany during the first three decades of the last century and participated in many exhibitions, she fell into obscurity for many years after the war.

We discovered the accompanying work on eBay and purchased it immediately, as her works are rarely offered on the art market.
 
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Topic of the Month

The 'Degenerate Art' exhibition, which took place in Munich in 1937, marked the absolute low point of Nazi cultural propaganda and sealed the end of artistic modernism in Germany. It was conceived as a traveling exhibition and was subsequently shown in many cities throughout Germany and Austria.

What is less known: as early as 1933, there was an exhibition in Karlsruhe titled 'Baden Government Art 1918 – 1933.' This exhibition served as the blueprint for the 1937 exhibition in Munich, and for that reason, it will be our 'Topic of the Month' in January.

Available on our website for the first time in its entirety on the internet: the official 1937 exhibition guide.


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Dr. Beatrix Früh
Dipl.-W. Ing. Stefan Schmitt
The Virtual Museum in Karlsruhe
August-Bebel-Straße 34
D-76187 Karlsruhe / Germany
Tel: +49 721 75 69 300
Email: 
info@lostgen.art