Rabindranath Tagore, India’s most well-known poet, painted them in colored
inks and gouache, and now they hang at a prestigious Berlin museum. Tagore,
the first writer from outside of Europe to win the Nobel Prize in
literature, presented the works to Germany as a gift in 1930.
The Nazi dictatorship, which had begun to label certain “inappropriate”
pieces of art as degenerate, purged the paintings seven years later.
Hitler, a failed artist himself, deemed post-impressionist contemporary art
to be “proof of a demented mind” and ordered the removal of almost 16,000
works of art from German museums, including those by Van Gogh and Man Ray.
inks and gouache, and now they hang at a prestigious Berlin museum. Tagore,
the first writer from outside of Europe to win the Nobel Prize in
literature, presented the works to Germany as a gift in 1930.
The Nazi dictatorship, which had begun to label certain “inappropriate”
pieces of art as degenerate, purged the paintings seven years later.
Hitler, a failed artist himself, deemed post-impressionist contemporary art
to be “proof of a demented mind” and ordered the removal of almost 16,000
works of art from German museums, including those by Van Gogh and Man Ray.
