Germany during the Nazi movement controlled the art produced between 1933 and 1945 to ensure they embodied the ethics they wanted to teach the German people. Highly eristic and aesthetic pieces romanticized everyday subjects and repeated outmoded stereotyped Nazi principles of the human body and its reasons in the Reich. Adolph Hitler and his image gave him opportunity to have a status as a god in Germany. When Hitler was made superior over the normal people, the artists made Hitler a being that if had spiritual goodness would take the Germanic race to the perfect future. The architecture, or so-called ‘ideology in stone’, was also a vessel for political ideology. The massive buildings were a proof to represent the strong and virtuous nature of the thousand years Reich. Therefore, art in the Third Reich was just a form of propaganda that encouraged the superiority of the Nordic race, the hunger for faithfulness and obedience of the German nation. Paintings of the Nordic peasants certified a come back of the pre-industrial nonviolent rural Germany. The oil painting Kalenberg Farm Family, by Adolph Wissel, portrays a warm situation of a family relaxing, most probably after a worki

ng day in the field. It is an art that can be accepted by anybody that watches the painting, that the D. Duchamp would name retinal art, because it is an aesthetically motivated and stylistically anti-modernist piece. The warm colors are attractive, in order to highlight the peacefulness of the scene. The composition is extremely ordered, controlled, and dignified, there is no indication of social unrest under the rule of the Third Reich, it is an ideal Utopia where the every day person a subject worthy of intense interest. This was a very popular subject as showed by the many paintings that were alike in genre, for example ‘Rest during the Harvest’ by George Gunter, and ‘Farm Girls returning from the Fields’ by Leopold Schmutzter. Hitler said that “art should be the expressions of the soul and ideals of the community” and these paintings definitely do present the ideals of life that the National Socialists choose to freedom. These values in turn, like a circular motion encouraged the ways of thinking and values of the German people who saw it, by installing a common sense of national self-importance in a natural and moral life lead by the Nazi values. Nazi ideology is also illustrated by “Ploughing”, by Julius Paul Junghan. A person who works on a land after some time gets a spiritual harmony with it, so that they become a part of the natural world. The work of art exhibits this ancient German ideology that was appropriated and completed by the Nazis to reduce the policy of Lebensraum or “living space” so the greater Nordic race would be able to take control over and order the land of other inferior nations. The oil countryside painting portrays a man reigning three strong workhorses with an archaic plow. The eyes are drawn from the three horses to the “intellectual” force behind the action with extensive converging lines, thus ploughing the land is a collective action, shared between farmer and animal, working towards a better field, or in figurative terms, better Germany. Once more an extremely romanticized picture of life tangled with nature is presented to manipulate the viewer, making them to join hard work to accomplish a group goal with moral virtue. This theme is repeatedly almost to exhaustion in such works as “Ploughing in the Evening” by Willy Jackel, and “The Sower” by Oskar Martin-Ambach. The Nazi principles are personified more implicitly in “Ploughing” than “Kalenburg Farm Family”, as on a sub-conscious level the positive view of expansionist values, the farmer representing a hard working Germany, who is regulator of the land, acts to subtly alter personal views on the Nazi situation. “Water Sports” painted by Albert Janesh in 1936 is a prime example of the way National Socialists encouraged, through the commissioning of the piece, collective action and the superiority of the Germanic body. There is a great sense of movement in this veristic depiction of a canoe race, where so-called examples of the ‘perfection’ of the ‘pure’ blood male Aryans harmoniously working together in t

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