This rare 1941 Nazi Kunst der Front Art Exhibition catalog from Occupied Paris is *SOLD**. USM book #538b

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Other Nazi era art exhibition guidebooks & catalogs for sale on USMBOOKS.com:

- 1940 Nazi Berlin War Art Exhibition catalog

- 1944 Unser Heer art exhibition guidebook from Vienna

- 1940 Sieghafte Deutsche Waffen exhibition guidebook

- 1941 exhibition called "The War in Books and Pictures"

- 1937 Nazi art festival and parade program

- 1938 Nazi Day of German Art illustrated booklet

The Kunst der Front exhibition catalog consists of a list of all the soldier painters and sculptors whose work was being shown as well as a list of works exhibited (many are illustrated) as well as a large advertising section for Parisian companies interested in selling a wide variety of merchandise to German occupation troops.

Many of the advertisers were firms who specialized in high-end merchandise, expensive meals, antique furniture, rugs, soldier portrait photos, high-fashion clothing, girlie show type entertainment and galleries specializing in paintings by the masters of the 19th and 20th centuries, etc.

We find it astonishing that recent movies such as the Monuments Men, which rather than telling the real story, would have viewers believe that when the Germans occupied France in 1940 they simply looted all the galleries and took the looted material back to Germany for Hitler and Göring. The indisputable fact is that in many cases collaborating people and French galleries were the perfectly willing sellers and German occupation troops were the willing buyers who made them rich. The problem with the actual history is that it is not the history Hollywood wishes to try to sell to the simpletons who buy tickets to their movie versions of history.

This Kunst der Front exhibition catalog starts with a full-page photo portrait of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring followed by a detailed alphabetic index of all the art on display at the exhibition. The catalog has black & white pictures of Generalfeldmarschall Sperrle, General Schmitt, Fort Eben-Emael, Oberst Mölders, the Singelgracht canal in Amsterdam, a bust of a young Parisienne, Monmartre, Flak artillery, the Rebuilding of Cambrai, Battle in the Balkans, the Alexander Church in Warsaw, Brussels, a Fisherman from Brittany with a Kriegsmarine Sailor, and many other pieces of art displayed at the exhibition.

The Kunst der Front exhibition catalog contains advertising for German films playing in theaters in Paris such as Zarah Leander in the Ufa movie Das Herz der Königin and Panzerkreuzer Sebstopol by Tobis playing on the Champs-Elysées.

Firms like film maker Agfa, Tissot (fancy binoculars and opera glasses), Elizabeth Arden (cosmetics), Van Cleef & Arpels (jewelry), Weil (furs) which could be purchased in the Paris store but also in their shops in Cannes and Monte Carlo, cabarets like Monsigneur, Paris-Plage, Chantilly Bel Ami, Le Champo, L'Amiral, Moulin Rouge, Badinage, Nox, Chez Elle, La Majesté, Monte Cristo, Paris-Paris, Don Juan, Chateau Bagatelle, Monico, Jardin Fleuri, La Villa Montparnasse, art galleries like Galerie Louis Carré, Galerie Borghèse, Galerie jacques Blot, Georges Préau, Galerie Guiraud, Kunst-Galerie Henri Joly, Susse Frères, Giordano di Palma, etc., etc. This Third Reich art exhibition catalog even contains advertising by aviation part manufacturer Bronzavia SA!

This rare 1941 Kunst der Front exhibition guide book was published by German publisher Der Deutsche Wegleiter on Avenue des Champs-Elysées 92 in Paris.  It is complete and is in very good used condition.