WWII – Holocaust Era1933-1945
• Adolf Hitler
• Jewish, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists, Liberals, homosexuals, poor, homeless, mentally ill, mentally retarded or other birth defects, and anyone who opposed Nazi politics or supported one of the target groups.
• 11 million people killed (Genocide) Over 6 million of those were Jewish men, women and children murdered (The Final Solution)
• Boycotts
• Ghettos
• Kristillnacht
• Train ride to work camps/death camps, medical experiments, crematoriums
• Death march
• Survivor camps 1945-1957
Degenerate Art (Entartete Kunst)“Modern artists are degenerate.” –Adolph Hitler
• Hitler painted realistically, landscapes and architecture. To him art was about depicting a pleasant scene in a realistic way.
• The Expressionists – Realism was not important, they were concerned with what was “beneath the surface” or what was happening psychologically.
• They reflected on their own World War I experiences and traumas, or other cultures (primitivism)
Oskar Kokoshka
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Max Beckman
Marc Chagall
Emil Nolde
Kathe Kollwitz
Kathe Kollwitz
Wassily Kandinsky
Otto Dix
Otto Dix
Choose one of the following perspectives for the piece you will create:
1. Direct historical reference – you are referencing someone’s holocaust/WWII experience, or a setting/scene, or an emotion. Examples: a landscape of a Jewish ghetto or some other setting; a person or people (holocaust prisoner, soldier, child, trains, death march, etc); a non-literal representation of an emotion experienced by victims/survivors (grief, shock, illness, loss, death)
2. Degenerate Art – create an artwork “in the style of” one of the Degenerate Artists censored by Hitler.
3. Direct present day reference – you are referencing a personal, present-day experience of hate, prejudice, war, or loss. This doesn’t have to be YOUR actual experience but can be that of a family member or friend – something that affected you strongly.
Video LinksSurvivor Interviews:• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoI1I1BMRvE
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqkGOqyWMI&list=FLChFBXy4mX-nMYM2VgLjAgQ&index=4
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeixVrnS7r8
Color film coverage of concentration camps:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNvVSQXtDw&feature=fvwp
Degenerate Art:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QE4Ld1mkoM
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