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. Stylistically often associated with Expressive Realism, they created a bridge between avant-garde and tradition.
News
Art Against the Nazi Regime
New works by the Passau painter Josef Friedrich Limmer
Topic of the month
Art in Exile - The Fate of Displaced Artists Far from Home
Newsletter July / August
New Works by Felix Nussbaum and Lili Réthi
Artwork of the Month
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. Since July 2026, our project has been an official partner in the 'Arts in Exile' network of the German National Library.
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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