This term refers to the artists who were born around 1900 and lived in Germany and in the territories occupied by the National Socialists. Their works were defamed as entartet—literally degenerate—and their careers were destroyed by the Nazi dictatorship and World War II. After 1945, they were pushed aside by the emerging wave of abstraction and fell into obscurity, until decades later they were rediscovered by art historians.
News
Art Against the Nazi Regime
New works by the Passau painter Josef Friedrich Limmer
Topic of the month
Exhibition „State Art in Baden 1918–1933“ in Karlsruhe
Newsletter January
New Works and a Preview of February’s Topics
The Lost Generation
The museum project
Our project to establish a museum in Karlsruhe that is dedicated exclusively to the Lost Generation fills a significant gap in the German museum landscape and is a powerful gesture of recognition for those artists who were defamed, persecuted, and ultimately pushed out of cultural memory during the Nazi era. It contributes to the culture of remembrance and makes the mechanisms of 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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