Each botanical illustration of a species is paired with a diagram, all different and depicting the properties she perceived ...

Dix’s art was deemed an “insult to the German heroes of the Great War.” Elsewhere in the exhibition, one could visit the "Insanity Room,” which displayed abstract paintings.

But Hitler was not an abstract or modernist painter; in fact, as became clear later in his life, when he became Fuhrer, he abhorred any style of art that deviated from realism.

Paintings by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky were removed from museums, films like Berlin: Symphony of a Great City and Metropolis were deprogrammed, and plays by Bertolt Brecht and concerts by Kurt ...

What did Stalin do in 1933, Hitler do in 1937, and Trump do in 2025? They all tried to block the development of modernist architecture by ordering that new government buildings look like vestiges ...

Young Hitler was rejected from art school and disliked in the army, Janet Flanner wrote, in 1936. A fateful pamphlet circulated just after the First World War inspired him in another direction.

Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll find out why a university with endowment assets of $2.5 billion is selling two Abstract Expressionist paintings that it has owned for nearly 70 years.

IN the first half of the 20th century, German art was crushed and twisted by two wars and artistically ignorant totalitarianism. Some of Germany's artists succumbed to Hitler's demands, some ...

Even before Hitler's rise to power, a new generation of abstract, Expressionist, and avant-garde artists were spearheading a great cultural shift in Germany and Europe at large.

He was consumed with abstract painting and determined to keep it alive even when it became an unpopular cause among younger artists. Frank Stella in 2015 in his studio in Rock Tavern, N.Y., with ...