Goebbels at the 'Entartete Kunst' exhibition, February 1938
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in a light trench coat and hat walks through a gallery of the 'Entartete Kunst' (Degenerate Art) exhibition, flanked by civilians and SS and uniformed officers. Expressionist paintings hang tightly together on the wall, each with a small placard beneath, and a carved wooden figure stands at right. The loaded label in the exhibition's title does the work: modern works are presented to visitors as a category to reject, not as works to be judged.
- Date
- February 27, 1938
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Reich Propaganda Ministry (Joseph Goebbels) and the 'Entartete Kunst' travelling exhibition
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (German Federal Archives, Bundesarchiv cooperation upload), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (German Federal Archives), as stated on the Commons file page
Bundesarchiv / photographer not recorded / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
[placard text beneath the two paintings illegible at this resolution]
[placard text beneath the two paintings illegible at this resolution]
The only text on the object is the small placards under the paintings, too small to read at 776 px. The exhibition's title 'Entartete Kunst' does not appear in the frame; it comes from the archive caption quoted in the notes.
