01513nam a22001817a 4500 OSt 20260227101145.0 260227b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780521821384 Goethe Zentrum Library CA2003/03 Paret, Peter An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach 1933-1938 Cambridge Press Syndicate of University of Cambridge 2003 191 p. ;illustration 15cm The conflict betweebn Ernst Barlach ,the most important German sculptor of the time ,and the Third Reich is a remarkable episode in Hitler's war against modern art. Rather than accept repression passively, Barlach denounced the confiscation and destruction of his work as ideologically inspired and continued on his independent course. The author's discussion of Barlach's art and of his insistence on creative freedom is joined to an analysis of his opponents' motives and tactics. Hitler's ill-informed rantings against modernism in German art were nevertheless an internally consistent and politically effective critique of liberal culture.That despite Hitler's strictures some National Socialists advocated a "Nordic modernism| and tried to win Barlach to their cause exemplifies the cultural crosscurrents running through the Third Reich .Peter Paret's closely focused study of an artist in a time of crisis seamlessly combines the history of modern Germany and the history of modern art. Custom CA 0 1310 1310 0 0 Custom 0 0 NFIC GZKL GZKL GEN 2026-02-27 0 CA2003/03 2026-0061 2026-02-27 10:12:00 2026-02-27 CA