Adolf Hitler: Entarte Kunst Or Degenerative Art

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Adolf Hitler was a fine arts student who studied music, opera, painting, sculpture, and architecture. While living in Vienna Hitler managed to always attend lectures, concerts, operas, and theaters. Even though his economical condition at the time would be considered poor he still did everything he could to pursue fine arts. In doing so he always bough the best paint brushes, paper, and canvas. According to the Washington Post, Germany recovered over one thousand four hundred pieces of art that were stolen by the Nazi's. A majority of the art that was stolen were known as Entartete Kunst or degenerative art which was modern art, that was banned mainly because it was "un-German" or because many of the artist who practiced this form of art were