The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass NEW
William Collins
\u2018A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands\nThe little-known story of Hitler\u2019s war on modern art and the mentally ill.\nIn the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world.\nThe Prinzhorn collection, as it was called, inspired a new generation of artists, including Paul Klee, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. What the doctor could not have known, however, was that these works would later be used to prepare the ground for mass-murder.\nSoon after his rise to power, Hitler\u2015a failed artist of the old school\u2015declared war on modern art. The Nazis staged giant \u2018Degenerate Art\u2019 shows to ridicule the avant-garde, and seized and destroyed the cream of Germany's modern art collections. This action was mere preparation, however, for the even more sinister campaign Hitler would later wage against so-called \""degenerate\"" peopK
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