Sentences with phrase «entartete kunst»

After World War I, Justin Thannhauser assumed control of the gallery, opening new branches in Lucerne (1919), and Berlin (1927), but the advent of the Nazis and its campaign against so - called «entartete kunst» (degenerate art) forced Thannhauser in 1937 to close the business and emigrate to Paris and thence to New York where he established himself as a private art dealer.

During the pre-war years, the governors of the Kunstmuseum decided to develop a major collection of modern art, and took full advantage of the opportunity in 1939 to purchase a large holding of avant garde art - designated as degenerate art (entartete kunst) by the Nazis.

After the Nazi regime closed down the Bauhaus in 1933, as part of its campaign of suppression of «degenerate art» (entartete kunst) Albers emigrated to America, and continued propagating the Bauhaus aesthetic in art and design at the experimental Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where he directed the fine art painting course until 1949.