退廃芸術
In July, 1937, the Nazis mounted a polemical exhibition entitled "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate art), in Munich; it subsequently travelled to eleven other cities in Germany and Austria. The show was intended as an official condemnation of modern art, and included over 650 paintings, sculptures, prints, and books from the collections of thirty two German museums. Expressionism, which had its origins in Germany, had the largest proportion of paintings represented. Simultaneously, and with much pageantry, the Nazis presented the "Grosse deutsche Kunstausstellung" (Great German art exhibition) at the palatial "Haus der deutschen Kunst" (House of German Art). This exhibition displayed the work of officially approved artists such as Arno Breker and Adolf Wissel. At the end of four months "Entartete Kunst" had attracted over two million visitors, nearly three and a half times the number that visited the nearby "Grosse deutsche Kunstausstellung".