Approved art in the Third Reich

[Fenris]

There really aren't any words to describe this stuff ("fucking awful" comes to mind) so I encourage you to draw your own conclusions.

Josef Thorak, "Denkmal der Arbeit" (Monument to Work) (wow...no comment)


"Genius des Sieges" (Genius of Victory) by Adolf Wamper, 1940


"Deutsche Waffe" (German Weapon) by Hias Lautenbacher, 1941 (...uh...yeah...no comment)


Oh, there's more...

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/kunsthaus1.htm

[DS1]

1. I guess the Reich doesn't believe in clothes. Or wheels.

[Fenris]

2. They were really into psuedo-classical nudes.

And apparenty, thinly-veiled homoeroticism...

[DS1]

3. This particular piece is called "Naked Sack-Race"

;-)

[Fenris]

4. There are no losers in that game.

Apparently they did know about wheels...

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

11. Wow, he's not just a cog in the machine...

he's IN a cog in the machine. Fucking Nazis...

[Fenris]

18. Given the size of that cog Nazi factories must have been huge!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

35. fucking nazis

[Elidor]

7. Thinly veiled? O, no...

It's not veiled at all.

[jpgray]

8. Not into anatomy, unfortunately

The masters could fuck with anatomy and still make it look plausible. Like the Riace bronzes, for example.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. Wow.

I didn't know RandomKoolzip was a Nazi. :o

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

15. But you knew he was a giant, stone statue, right?

[Magrittes Pipe]

16. ...

I was only looking at the wang.

[Fenris]

17. Love the sig pic, Paul.

Megadittoes!

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

32. Thanks. It came to me in a dream.

Not really.

[RandomKoolzip]

22. I'm a shock trooper in a stupor.

And my penis is a party pooper. :cry:

[redqueen]

24. And the title of this one is... ? n/t

[tigereye]

5. those are truly truly bizarre

all that Wagner went to someone's head and uh, ....

[flamingyouth]

6. Wow, that really is abysmal

Really, truly awful.

[jonnyblitz]

9. tom of finland. very homoerotic. how ironic is that? nt

[Fenris]

10. Tom came to mind when I saw those sculptures.

Apparently he was passed that torch...

[jonnyblitz]

20. I wouldn't dare post any of his stuff on here.

with all the "exaggerations".

[terrya]

12. Exactly what I thought when I saw it

Tom of Finland or Paul Cadmus....very, very homoerotic.

[jonnyblitz]

19. i am sure some of his drawings had guys in nazi uniforms (Tom's)

I haven't seen his stuff in awhile< since I saw 'Daddy and the Muscle Factory" in the 90's. I am not familiar with Paul Cadmus though the I have seen the name. :hi:

[terrya]

21. I'm not all that familiar with Tom's...catalog, shall we say?

But I'm sure you're right...Tom had his men in all sorts of uniforms.

Paul Cadmus had a style similar to Tom of Finland..,but less..pronounced, I guess. :-)

:hi:

[jonnyblitz]

23. ROFL

key word being "pronounced". I have seen quite a bit of his stuff including the movie about him when it came out that i mentioned in my other post. Not really that big on him though. :shrug:

[Fenris]

25. Here's one

[jonnyblitz]

28. ha, that tame example gives a good idea of the "possibilities".

I should post one where one of the guys is in all the way up to his elbow...:evigrin:

if any stormfront types happen to be lurking I am sure they would not be pleased to see this comparison. Oh well.

[Magrittes Pipe]

29. Tom of Finland? Is that this guy?

[jonnyblitz]

31. THAT'S HIM!

wow, now i wonder about you! you know these things... :scared:

[Bucky]

13. It reminds me of WPA-era Modernism. Was the school called Utopianism?

Standard Big Brother art. Reminds me of the look on Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

[no name no slogan]

26. Why do all the statues have tiny dicks?

Is it a Nazi thing?

[Magrittes Pipe]

27. See post #14.

[no name no slogan]

30. ...

:spray:

well, that 'splains it

[Benfea]

33. Well, you know how fascists hate art.

Just look at modern Republicans.

[cemaphonic]

34. That's because mostl of the good artists skipped town early.

Our artistic community was incredibly enriched in the '30s by all of the German artists that wanted no part of the Nazis. Especially in film and music (think Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Marlene Dietrich, and more). I did finally see Triumph of the Will a few days ago though, and it really is a well-done film.

In 1937, Goebbels organized a pair of art exhibits, one showing the kind of crap above (and a bunch of wretched oil paintings) and another showing so-called 'degenerate' art (various flavors of Modernism) The 'degenerate' exhibit was so popular that the Nazis shut it down in embarassment a couple of weeks later.