Art, Exhibition and Erasure in Nazi Vienna

by Laura Morowitz

This book examines three exhibitions of contemporary art held at the Vienna K nstlerhaus during the period of National Socialist rule and shows how each attempted to culturally erase elements anathema to Nazi ideology: the City, the Jewess and fin-de-si cle Vienna.

Each of the exhibits was large scale and ambitious, part of a broader attempt to situate Vienna as the cultural capital of the Reich, and each aimed to reshape cultural memory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032405872
• ISBN13: 9781032405872
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages