Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany
The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts

Alan E. Steinweis (Author)

9780807846070

Paperback / softback, published 30 September 1996

244 pages
23.5 x 15.5 x 1.3 cm, 0.45 kg

From 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers. Alan Steinweis focuses on the fields of music, theatre and the visual arts in this study of Nazi cultural administration, examining a complex pattern of interaction among leading Nazi figures, German cultural functionaries, ordinary artists, and consumers of culture. Steinweis gives special attention to Nazi efforts to purge the arts of Jews and other so-called undesirables.