Unresolved?
Aesthetic Modernism and the Nazi Period
Art, Art Trade, Exhibition Practice
Kick-off event of the colloquium

In cooperation with Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin and “Degenerate Art” Research Center at Freie Universität Berlin.

Alongside the exhibitions Emil Nolde. A German Legend. The Artist during the Nazi Regime (Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) and Escape into Art? The Brücke Painters in the Nazi Period (Brücke-Museum), this international colloquium gathers historians, art historians, curators and journalists to critically examine the legacy of Nazi art propaganda.

Participants present the latest research findings on National Socialism and discuss how the multi-faceted and contradictory image of the German art world between 1933 and 1945 can be presented in the institutional framework of an art museum. The kick-off event will take place at the Brücke-Museum; the following lectures and discussions will take place at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin.

4 pm Admittance

4.15–5.15 pm  Guided tour with the curators in the exhibition Escape into Art? The Brücke Painters in the Nazi Period

5.30 pm Welcome, introduction: Meike Hoffmann (Freie Universität, Berlin) and Dieter Scholz (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)

6–7 pm Keynote lecture by Christoph Zuschlag (University of Bonn), Art and Art Politics in Nazi Regime – Attempting a Research Balance of the Last 20 Years 

7–9 pm Reception

This event is in German, registration is necessary with: Natascha Hellwag

A complete programme of this event, initiated and sponsored by the Ferdinand-Möller-Stiftung, can be found on the website of the Ferdinand-Möller-Stiftung.