OTS - How the documenta invented the "Zero Hour" in art after 1945
2021. March 01. 17:04
Berlin, 1 March, 2021 (APA/OTS) - "documenta. Politics and Art"
from 18 June 2021 to 9 January 2022 - The documenta owes its rise
to the most successful German art exhibition not least to its
political dimension: its disassociation from National Socialism and
the bloc building of the Cold War. It was informed on the one hand
by the supposed attempt to distance itself radically from Nazi
cultural politics while at the same time refusing to deal openly
with the Nazi past. On the other hand, its politically motivated
orientation on the West included a decided aloofness toward and
denigration of the socialist art of the "Eastern bloc".
- Picture is available at
https://www.presseportal.de/nr/150323?langid=2 -
With "documenta. Politics and Art" the Deutsches Historisches
Museum takes up the example of the famous exhibition in Kassel to
shed light on the manifold interactions between politics and art in
the society of the Federal Republic after 1945. Parallel to this,
the exhibition "'Divinely Gifted'. National Socialism's favoured
artists in the Federal Republic" (27.8.21 - 6.2.22) presents for
the first time an examination of the post-war careers of so-called
"divinely gifted" visual artists whom the Nazi authorities, from
1944 on, had deemed to be "indispensable" and were therefore exempt
from front-line military service or other work for the war effort.
Raphael Gross, President of the Deutsches Historisches Museum:
"With these exhibitions we want to bring to light a new perspective
on the history of the Federal Republic in its international
context. Both of them correct the notion of a radical aesthetic new
beginning, which has often been attributed to the documenta and of
which the early documenta framers made extensive use. There were,
in fact, unbroken lines leading back to National Socialism. Works
by murdered Jewish artists found no room in the early editions of
the documenta. And in our exhibition on the previously almost
unresearched 'Divinely Gifted', we are showing, conversely, the
degree to which this group of visual artists who had been active in
the Nazi cultural sector dominated the public space after 1945 and
continue to dominate it to this day."
Long Version:
https://www.dhm.de/en/press/press-release/how-the-documenta-invented-the-zero-hour-in-art-after-1945
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Abteilungsdirektor Kommunikation
Dr. Stephan Adam
Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin
T +49 30 20304-150
presse@dhm.de
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Daniela Lange
Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin
T +49 30 20304-410
presse@dhm.de
www.dhm.de
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