By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Published: November 30, 2010 BERLIN — The past still thrusts itself back into the headlines here, occasionally as an unexploded bomb turning up somewhere. Now it has reappeared as art. Marg Moll’s “Dancer,” from around 1930, is one of the found works in the “Degenerate Art” show at the Neues Museum in [...]
Wanted: buyer for Hitler’s statue
A sculpture by Fritz Röll, once owned by the Führer, was rejected by Sotheby’s but is now being offered by a private dealer A sculpture bought by Hitler in 1939 was offered for sale by London dealer Simon Wingett for £150,000 ($233,000) last month. The marble work, by Fritz Röll (1879-1956), was to have been [...]
Nazi Art on Display at Grohmann Museum
Nazi associations of collection “not relevant” says founder of new museum The art on show includes works by artists collected by Hitler and displayed in exhibitions sponsored by the Third Reich In praise of workers: the Grohmann Museum with its nine-foot sculptures of labourers on the roof and the “Kaiserdom” inspired by Sir Norman Foster’s [...]
Winston Churchill
Churchill as a painter I have had Hitler so I have to have Churchill. Churchill’s art has sold for a staggering £600,000 in recent years, that is certainly another step ahead of Hitler. Personally, I don’t really like his paintings either. As a painter he was prolific, with over 570 paintings and two sculptures; he [...]
Hitler’s Art
Before amassing his fortune with the enormous royalties from the publication of his hugely popular Mein Kampf, Hitler earned a living by using his artistic skills to produce paintings that were sold to the public or used for postcards. Hitler was a great student of the fine arts and studied music, opera, painting, sculpture, and [...]
