Artists Under Hitler - Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas and compromises faced by Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde and other celebrated artists who chose to remain in Nazi Germany discusses how they successfully or unsuccessfully handled regime restrictions.

About the author

Jonathan Petropoulos is John V. Croul Professor of European History, Claremont McKenna College, and author of several books on culture in the Third Reich. He is former Research Director for Art and Cultural Property, Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States. He lives in Claremont, CA.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Petropoulos, Petropoulos Jonathan
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2014
• EAN: 9780300197471
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19747-1
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of Art, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)