Click Here to Read: The politics of cultural destruction: The Rape of Europa By Nancy Hanover on the World Socialist Web Site on September 27, 2013.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-Portrait as a Soldier (1915). His work was labelled “degenerate” in 1933. In 1937 the Nazis sold or destroyed 600 of his paintings. His first solo show in the US took place at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1937. He committed suicide in 1938.