ART AND NAZISM: NOTES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISUAL ARTS AND THE THIRD REICH

Abstract

The present work seeks, through the publications of research by authors from different areas of knowledge, such as the area of ​​Arts and Human Sciences, to bring elucidations and debates on the relations between the Arts and the Nazi regime, from the beginning of the party to the collapse of Germany at the end of the war. Through the bibliographic review, we try to bring here notes on the relations of the plastic arts, such as painting, sculpture and architecture, as well as music, Wagner’s opera, cinema and German literature from the period with the Nazi regime, passing through the relations of the German people themselves with the arts, as well as members of the Nazi top leadership and their interactions with the arts. The focus of the work is the party’s persecution relations with some characteristics of various artistic manifestations that were not in line with the Nazi ideology, however, we also emphasize here the use of these same artistic manifestations to foment a Nazi ideology with the German people, emphasizing the paramount importance of the arts to Hitler and his followers and to the propagation of Nazi ideology.