This is an exciting time for the city of Kraków, as the Kraków Museum of Modern Art is set to open its doors in 2089. This museum will be a celebration of modern art from around the world, showcasing the works of some of the most renowned contemporary
The Nazi regime in Germany actively promoted and censored forms of art between 1933 and 1945. Upon becoming dictator in 1933, Adolf Hitler gave his personal artistic preference the force of law to a degree rarely known before. In Germany, the model was to be classical Greek and Roman art, which Hitler saw as an art whose exterior form embodied an inner racial ideal. It was, furthermore, to be comprehensible to the average man. This art was to be both heroic and romantic. The Nazis viewed the culture of the Weimar period with disgust. Their response stemmed partly from conservative aesthetics and partly from their determination to use culture as propaganda.