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By 1938 the magazine was large in size (about 11 x 14 inches), huge is scope and right to the end it was published by Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachfolger (the Central Publishing House of the Nazi Party) on fine quality paper using the best available inks. Huge full-page, full-color and black & white photographs dominated the format of Die Kunst. Many of the pictures were never published elsewhere and none were published in a larger format.

The big 11 x 14 inch, very heavily illustrated art magazine Die Kunst im dritten Reich (The Arts in the Third Reich) and Die Kunst im deutschen Reich (The Arts in the German Reich) was first published in January 1937 by Gauleiter Adolf Wagner. After the first six monthly issues the format was changed to a much larger size and it was published at the direction of Germany's 23rd Chancellor, Adolf Hitler himself, under the supervision of an extremely prestigious group of directors that included Professor Dr. Ing. Fritz Todt, Generalbauinspektor Professor Albert Speer of Berlin, Professor Richard Klein of the Academy of Applied Arts in München (Munich) and Professor Leonhard Gall of Studio Troost in München.

Offered on this USMBOOKS web page is a professionally hardbound book containing all twelve of the Die Kunst im deutschen Reich magazines for the year 1940. As was the custom in libraries in Germany during the Third Reich, all magazines for a single year were bound together without their paper covers.

These 1940 issues of Die Kunst im deutschen Reich contain many pieces of war art from the Polenfeldzug, the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and famous works on display the the 1940 Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung in the House of German Art in Munich. The July 1940 is worth mentioning as it contains marble and bronze busts of Frederick the Great by Josef Thorak, Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg by Arno Breker, General Erich von Ludendorff by Fritz Klimsch, Generalfeldmarschall Hermann Goering by Hans Haffenrichter, Generaloberst von Brauchitsch and Generaloberst Keitel by Hermann Joachim Pagels, as well as busts of Generalfeldmarschall Alfred Graf von Schlieffen and Generalfeldmarschall von Moltke, and others.

Main articles in various issues of Die Kunst im deutschen Reich in 1940 are art from the city of Danzig, Walter Klinkert's pen and ink art from his visit to Rome, Raffael Schuster-Woldan, several paintings by Elk Eber, Franz Eichhorst and Ernst Vollbehr of the invasion of Poland, Wolf Willrich portraits of Kapitaenleutnant Prien, Fritz Heuenstein and Matrosengefreiter Laskewicz, the 70th birthday of sculptor Fritz Klimsch, Fritz Erler mosaics in the new Reichshauptbank in Berlin, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller paintings of his mother, heroic Arno Breker reliefs and statues (including two busts of Richard Wagner and Der Wäger from the Round Hall in the Reichschancellery in Berlin), Werner Peiner gobelins from the Reichskanzlei Berlin, the 100th anniversary of the death of Caspar David Friedrich, Peter Paul Rubens, art from the 1940 exhibition at the Maximilianeum in Munich, Hans Makart, Otto von Kursell, Franz Kruger, naval paintings by Claus Bergen, heroic bronze by Adolf Wamper, a bust of Horst Wessel by Fritz Koelle, Polenkaempfer by Franz Eichhorst, the Hermann-Göring-Werke by Franz Gerwin, a Wehrmacht Artillery painting by Eduard Thöny, busts of themselves by Fritz Klimsch, Georg Kolbe, Richard Scheibe and other well-known Third Reich sculptors, landscape paintings by Otto Modersohn, sculptures by Gustinus Ambrosi, animal bronzes, Italy and the German Art (includes a Friedrich Stahl painting owned by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring), work by sculptor Hugo Lederer, etc.

There Nazi art magazines include work by artists Arno Breker, Josef Wackerle, Josef Thorak, Kurt Schmid-Ehmen, Friedrich Stahl, Adolf  Ziegler, Sepp Hilz, Paul Padua, Julius Paul Junghanns, Josef Pieper, Fritz von Graevenitz, Wolf Willrich, Ernst Vollbehr, Franz Eichhorst, Christian Daniel Rauch, Caspar David Friedrich, Peter Paul Rubens, Elk Eber, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Georg Kolbe, Fritz Klimsch, Richard Klein, Johann Schult, Ferdinand von Rayski, Hugo Lederer, Adolf Menzel, and many more.

Many pieces of art that were on display at the 1940 Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung held in the House of German Art in Munich are pictured in this book, including a painting of Mrs. Bormann by Wilhelm Pitthan. Each issue ends with a monthly Kunstausstellungkalender or Calendar for Art Exhibitions in Greater Germany.

This 1-½ x 11 x 14 inch hard cover book containing all 12 issues of Die Kunst im deutschen Reich magazines is in very good condition. We did not find any writing or cut-out photos in this 6+ pound book containing about 360 pages. This Third Reich book has been stored in low humidity at 5000 ft (1500 m) elevation, so the content is very dry and has no perceptible odor.