Nazi Propaganda: Fine arts and Culture

1. Nazi Propaganda: Fine arts and Culture Manoj, Dilan and Nisa

2. Art of the Third Reich • Official art produced 1933-45 • Modern styles were banned • Promoted Nazi ideology • This included traditional values of women staying at home to cook, raise the children and go to church.

3. Paintings • Adolf Ziegler was Hitler's favourite artist • Most paintings were stereotypes • Increasing amount of war art as WW2 aproached

4. Sculptures • Arno Breker was Hitler’s favourite • The male form could have no imperfections • Sculpture was used as an expression of Nazi racial theories. • The most common image was of the nude male, expressing the ideal of the Aryan race.  • Nudes were required to be physically perfect

5. Architecture • Part of the cultural and spiritual rebirth of Germany • Hitler wanted to base his empire on the romans • Hitler imported political symbols into Germany • He thought the Aryans were decedents of the Ancient Greeks

6. Rare Paintings • Explicitly political paintings were a rarity in during the reign of the Third Reich. • However, Surprisingly Anti-Semitic paintings and art, were the rarest type of propaganda, this can be contrasted to how much of the Third Reich was built around this topic, but was never used in fine art. – This is because art was said to be on a ‘higher plane’ than Anti Semitism.

7. Effectiveness • By Nazi standards, fine art was not a propaganda. • It was used more to create ideals for eternity. • This Produced the call for more heroic and romantic art. – This showed more of the ideal than the realistic. • However it still reinforced Nazi ideas like anti-Semitism