Exhibition
| Prologue
| Prophets of Catastrophe
| 1918-1929
| 1930-1933
1933-1939
| Themes of the Times
| Shadows over Europe
| Epilogue
After Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of the Reich on 30 January 1933, the Nazi regime established a dictatorship within a few months. The repressions of the National Socialists against all forms of opposition silenced all critical voices among artists as well. The artists were persecuted or arrested and often found themselves forced to leave the country or to work in secrecy. Not infrequently they combined their retreat into the “inner emigration” with a pointedly apolitical stance as well as a deliberate show of subjectivity. Artists like Max Beckmann, Otto Dix or Karl Hofer depicted themselves as seers or prophets.
