Gert Heinrich Wollheim

❝ Degenerate art: Artists in the 1937 Munich show (61 person items)

" Immediately after Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 his works were declared degenerate art and many were destroyed. He fled to France and became active in the Resistance. He was one of the co-founders of the artists' federation, the Union des Artistes Allemandes Libres. An organization of exiled German artists, it was founded in Paris in autumn 1937. Meanwhile, in Munich, three of his pictures were displayed in the defamatory Nazi exhibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) in 1937."