Language:
German
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
14 (1985) 277-288
Keywords:
Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999-)
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Museums
Abstract:
The Jewish Museum in Berlin was founded in 1933, one week before Hitler's rise to power. The idea of a Jewish museum was born at the same time as the idea of Jewish art, in the late 19th century, as a Jewish response to German romantic nationalism. Argues that the founders' view that there is such a thing as "Jewish art" paradoxically echoed Hitler's later convictions, and increased the general confusion in Germany. The museum's basic premises were criticized by German Jewish art critic Curt Glaser. He noted that "Jewish art" cannot be separated from "German art" other than by force, and that Jews who try to do so provide their enemies with weapons. Since art produced by Jews was banned from German museums after 1933, the Jewish Museum remained one of the only venues for exhibiting it. The museum was closed immediately after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom and its collections were looted, destroyed, or confiscated. Works which were discovered after 1945 ended up in museums in Israel, France, Britain, and the USA. In 1983 a special section was opened in the Berlin city museum commemorating the first German Jewish museum.
Note:
With a Hebrew summary.
URL:
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