“Degenerate” and approved art in the Third Reich

Approved: Poster praising Hitler: "One People, One Reich, One Führer!"

Hitler judges.

Ledger of shattered lives.

Degenerate: Cover of Degenerate Art catalog.

Degenerate: Max Beckman's self-portrait.

Approved: The painting triptych hung over Hitler's fireplace.

The Nazis enjoy viewing what they couldn't stand.

Degenerate: Kirchner's "Group of Artists," 1926-27.

Installation view at the Neue Galerie.

Degenerate: Felix Nussbaum painted "The Damned" in 1943. A year later he was murdered in Auschwitz at the age of 39.

Degenerate: Max Beckmann's "Departure" begun in Frankfurt in 1932 after the Nazis had fired him from his professorship at the Frankfurt Art Academy. Finished in Berlin 1933-35.

Approved: Hitler hung "The Four Elements," painted by Adolf Ziegler in 1937, over his fireplace.

Degenerate: Lasar Segall's "The Eternal Wanderers," 1919.

Installation view at the Neue Galerie.

Degenerate: Paul Klee's "The Angler," from 1921.

Degenerate: Ernst Barlach's bronze sculpture from 1910, "The Berserker."

Degenerate: Oskar Kokoschka, "Poster with self portrait for Der Sturm Magazine," 1910.