Totalitarian Art - Page 2

Za Rodinu · #26 (**permalink**) July 26th, 2008, 08:51 AM

Suggestion: go to Finland and have a few saunas there. I assure you, I myself found it rather unsettling at first, but the motto I was given was "when in sauna behave as if in church". After a bit all inhibitions were off and it all became quite normal

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Za Rodinu · #27 (**permalink**) July 26th, 2008, 08:59 AM

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These abstract and truly modernist representations would mean an immediate Konzentratzionlager in Germany for the authors, while they would be the way forward in Italy. Quite a different character in art.

When Nazis didn't like anything that wasn't straight figurativist, they called it Degenerate Art Look at this experts line up

Even Piet Mondrian was condemned!

Troglodyte · #28 (**permalink**) July 26th, 2008, 09:07 AM

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Even Piet Mondrian was condemned!

Looks like a partial map of the city...only streets names are missing.

Za Rodinu · #29 (**permalink**) July 29th, 2008, 05:52 PM

More monumental architecture, Kharkov's Red Square (now Freedom Square)

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Freedom Square (Ukrainian: Площа Свободи, Ploshcha Svobody; Russian: Площадь Свободы, Ploshchad Svobody) in Kharkiv is the third largest city-centre square in Europe.

Originally named (1927-1995) Dzerzhinsky Square after Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Bolshevik secret police (the Cheka, precursor to the KGB), it was renamed after Ukraine became independent in 1991. A monumental statue of Lenin was erected in the square in 1964.

The main part of the square is limited to the west by the statue of Lenin, to the east by Sumskaya street, to the north by the hotel Kharkov and to the south by Shevchenko park. It is approximately 690-750 meters long and 96-125 meters wide. The complete square is approximately 11.6 ha. [1].

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RAM · #30 (**permalink**) July 29th, 2008, 09:50 PM

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I have a book on Nazi art crated somewhere, very interesting. Also I inherited from my father a couple of books on Nazi architecture, presented to him by the German embassy cultural office during wartime, he was a civil engineer by training and as such he was a target for such largesse. A lot of Portuguese (and other people's too) architecture of the period shows heavy influence, and I have to admit I do appreciate the architectural style.

Nice to see the Viking influence in Portugal, its just like back home..

Not surprised however, we discovered the world...

RAM

Za Rodinu · #31 (**permalink**) July 29th, 2008, 10:53 PM

Or it may be a reminiscence of the sort of 'armed tourism' your ancestors used to do

Za Rodinu · #32 (**permalink**) October 5th, 2008, 08:05 PM

Haus der Deutschen Kunst, Munich. See parts 2, 3 & 4 too.

"Adolf Hitler was a genuine patron of the arts, with a love for painting and architecture, but only a patron of those arts of which he approved. Having been a painter in his youth, Hitler considered himself the supreme critic of what was, and was not, proper art. Modern "degenerate" art was definitely out. To promote "proper" art Hitler had the Haus der Deutschen Kunst (House of German Art) built in Munich, to be the scene of special yearly exhibits. Hitler placed his photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, along with director Karl Kolb, in charge of choosing the art works for these annual exhibitions."

All from that stupendous site Third Reich Ruins, by Geoff Walden!