Processed Art

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ugly, ambiguous in meaning, poorly executed or less directly associated with Nazi militarism, the negative effects on the world of his sculpture would have been considerably lessened. In a certain sense, Breker uses his numerous "naked men with swords" to unite the notions of health, strength, competition, collective action and willingness to sacrifice the self for the common good seen in many other Nazi works with explicit glorification of militarism. The pair of statures The Party and The Army stood outside the entrance of Hitler's Reich Chancellery. Like Breker's other sculptures, they are both strongly and clearly expressive, and are also an idealization of some of the most aggressive and totalitarian themes in Nazi art.
Another Nazi, Adolf Wissel, painted in a certain class of folk art. The themes running through such works of art as Farm Family from Kahlenberg are the virtues of the simple, natural life, living close to the land, and using muscular power to turn the land ...

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is Relay Runners by Karl Albiker. The only way to fill all of the newly open old museums and the new ones being built was to lower standards for quality and in many cases substitute ideological viewpoint as the standard for quality. The forms in this sculpture are blunted and imprecise and obviously cannot stand on their own without the supports attached to the legs. Still, the themes of athletic prowess, health, and collective action seen in so much other Nazi art are present in such botched attempts.
Much German sculpture of this era is criticized for amateurish workmanship and rightly so in cases like this. Such works were popular even though the degenerate art of the Weimar ...

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