The art of the Third Reich was the government-approved art produced in Nazi Germany between and Upon becoming dictator in , Adolf Hitler gave his personal artistic preference the force of law to a degree rarely known before. In the case of Germany, the model was to be classical Greek and Roman art , seen by Hitler as an art whose exterior form embodied an inner racial ideal. Their response stemmed partly from conservative aesthetics and partly from their determination to use culture as propaganda. As indicated by historian Henry Grosshans in his book Hitler and the Artists , Adolf Hitler who came to power in quote : "saw Greek and Roman art as uncontaminated by Jewish influences. Modern art was [perceived by him as] an act of aesthetic violence by the Jews against the German spirit. Such was true to Hitler — wrote Grosshans — even though only Liebermann , Meidner , Freundlich , and Marc Chagall , among those who made significant contributions to the German modernist movement, were Jewish.


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