Retracing memory, exploring the methodical attack that the Nazi regime launched against “degenerate” art - which would then be simply modern art. This is the theme that the Musée National Picasso in Paris addresses, for the first time in France, with the temporary exhibition Degenerate Art. The trial of modern art under Nazism. The starting point for this painful story is the propaganda exhibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art), organized in 1937 in Munich, which pilloried more than 600 works by a hundred artists, representatives of the different currents of modern art, from Otto Ten to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, from Vassily Kandinsky to Emil Nolde, from Paul Klee to Max Beckmann, in a staging designed to arouse disgust in the visitor. The exhibition allows us to show the scope of the aesthetics and the artists targeted. Each work is therefore a direct testimony of this history and of the lives of the artists who have been touched by it. The exhibition will present prominent artists such as George Grosz, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka and Vassily Kandinsky, or even Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.
