“Here we have been hearing terrible rumours about torture of the Jews [by the Nazis], but it's all surely untrue. I'm a little tired and sad about the situation up there. There is a war in the air. In the museums, the hard-won cultural achievements of the last 20 years are being destroyed, and yet the reason why founded the Brücke was to encourage truly German art, made in Germany. And now it is supposed to be un-German [Degenerated Art / Entartete Kunst]. Dear God. It does upset me.”

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Letter to Karl Hagemann, May 1933; as quoted in the biography-pdf http://www.kirchnermuseum.ch/data/media/downloads/Biography.pdf of the Kirchner museum, Davos
1930's

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German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker 1880–1938

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