Museum Gunzenhauser
Presentation of the Collection
Abstraktion after 1945
National Socialism meant a deep break for art. After the end of the Second World War, the (European) totalitarian dictatorships favoured realism. At the same time, art forms developed in both Eastern and Western Europe that took up abstraction, which had been defamed as “degenerate” in the course of National Socialist cultural policy. Abstraction attempted to brush aside the experienced past and was the general, almost unchallenged consensus in the 1950s and 1960s, especially in ...