Nazi Control Of The Arts
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- Created on: 10-02-18 17:01
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- Nazi control of the Arts
- Music
- Hitler encouraged traditional German folk music together with classical music
- Brahms
- Beethoven
- Richard Wagner
- Hitler's favourite composer
- Hitler hated modern music
- Jazz was known as 'black' music
- Seen as racially inferior
- Jazz was known as 'black' music
- Hitler encouraged traditional German folk music together with classical music
- Art
- Hitler hated modern art
- (Any art developed under the Weimar Republic)
- He believed that it was backward, unpatriotic and Jewish
- Considered 'degenerate' art
- It was banned
- He encouraged art which highlighted Germany's past strength and power of the Third Reich
- He wanted art to be in certain style
- To reject the weak and ugly
- Glorify healthy, strong heroes
- Portrayed workers, peasants and women as glorious and noble creatures
- Paintings showed:
- the Nazi idea of the simple peasant life
- hard work as heroic
- the perfect Aryan
- young German men and women were shown to have perfect bodies
- women in their preferred role as housewives and mothers
- He wanted art to be in certain style
- Hitler hated modern art
- Architecture
- Hitler encouraged the 'monumental' style for public buildings
- Buildings made of stone
- Often copied from ancient Greek or Rome
- Hitler liked this style because the Jews had not 'contaminated' it
- After 1934, it was decided that all new public buildings had to have sculptures
- Had to demonstrate Nazi ideals
- Hitler encouraged the 'monumental' style for public buildings
- Theatre
- Concentrate on history and political drama
- Cheap theatre tickets were available to encourage people to see plays
- Often with a Nazi political and racial theme
- Music
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