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Auction History Result 2s0074 DEUTSCHE KUNST UND ENTARTETE KUNST 5th edition German hardcover book 1938 w/dust jacket, rare! Date Sold 8/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage German Hardcover Book (measures 6 1/4" x 8 1/2" [16 x 22 cm]; 80 pages) (Learn More) Deutsche Kunst und Entartete Kunst (literally translates to "German Art and Degenerate Art"), the 1938 Adolf Dresler German illustrated book which compared Aryan artwork to "un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, Communist" artwork. Degenerate art was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, degenerate art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling". Degenerate Art also was the title of an exhibition, held by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of 650 modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art. Designed to inflame public opinion against modernism, the exhibition subsequently traveled to several other cities in Germany and Austria. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is the fifth edition of this hardcover book, so we imagine it sold very well in Germany in 1938. It has an unusual format, where each two-page spread has an image on the left of a work of art that the Nazis and Adolf Hitler approved of, and an image on the right, which they greatly disapproved of, and it is clear the pairs were chosen for their having a similar subject or viewpoint. We have never auctioned any version of this book before. It is apparently extremely rare, and even more so because it has its original dust jacket! Note: We have 11 images this book, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 11 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 1. Condition: good to very good. The book itself is in surprisingly nice condition. The incredibly rare dust jacket has paper loss at the bottom and uneven tears above that, where there were tape repairs that stained the words in that area, and there is tiny paper loss by one of the tears. The blank back cover of the jacket has light stains and a tape stain at the bottom. I would grade the book itself as "very good to find" and the jacket as "fair to good", but of course, I don't know of another example of this jacket. Learn More about condition grades 
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