6549 x 4173 px | 55,4 x 35,3 cm | 21,8 x 13,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
25. März 2023
Ort:
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
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Adolf Ziegler (16 October 1892 – 11 September 1959) was a German painter and politician. He was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of what the Party described as "degenerate art", by most of the German modern artists. He was Hitler's favourite painter. Hitler n the late 190s hung Ziegler's The Four Elements at a residence in Munich. It became an overnight sensation through frequent reproduction. This painting was much liked, judging by the enormous numbers of postcards and reproductions of it sold. The Nazi celebrations of the human figure without conflict or suffering were immensely popular. By this time, Ziegler had become the foremost official painter of the Third Reich. A work by Nazi painter Adolf Ziegler hangs in Munich's Pinakothek museum, and German artist Georg Baselitz says it should be removed. Ziegler persecuted Jewish and so-called "degenerate" artists under Hitler.. Collection director Bernhard Maaz and curator Oliver Kase rejected the accusation of the propagandistic effect of the painting,
