The Haus der Deutschen Kunst (House of German Art) was built in a park-like setting just northeast of the Feldherrnhalle in downtown München (Munich) on the orders of Adolf Hitler, to replace the Crystal Palace Gallery which had been destroyed by fire in 1931.  It was built under the direction of Professor Paul Ludwig Troost who died before it was finished. The building on Prinzregentenstraße was completed by his young widow, Gerdie Troost with the help of her associate Professor Leonhard Gall in 1937. Each year the work of German artists from Germany and abroad was showcased at the House of German Art.

Offered for sale on this USMBOOKS web page is the official, full exhibition catalog for the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung (Greater German Art Exhibition) that opened on 10 July 1938 and ran through 16 October at the House of German Art in central München, Germany. The book is in very good condition and complete.

The 186-page, 5-7/8 x 8-1/4 inch heavily illustrated softcover book begins with a (frequently missing) portrait of the Führer followed by a picture of and multi-color floor plans of the Haus der Deutschen Kunst. That is followed by a written overview of the building and a directory of each of the artists and the works being exhibited and reproductions of many of the principal works of the exhibition (busts, nudes, heroic sculptures, landscapes, etc.) one to a page.

There is an Emil Hub bust of Adolf Hitler; a Conrad Hommel portrait of Hermann Göring in hunting attire; a Otto Pitthan portrait of Reichsminister Dr. Joseph Goebbels; nudes by Schwalbach, Gerhardinger, Storch, Kurt Schmid-Ehmen, Josef Thorak, Adolf Ziegler, Scheibe, Behn, Kolbe, Dorer, Knubel, Piner; as well as art by Sepp Hilz, Arno Breker, Fritz Klimsch, Franz Eichhorst, Julius Paul Junghanns, Albert Henrich, Conrad Phau, Hermann Gradl, Ferdinand Liebermann, Anni Spetzler-Proschwitz, Wissel, and many others.

The last 8 pages contain advertising from SS Allach, ALA, Schenker, Indanthren, banks, insurance companies and beer breweries.

This heavily illustrated original 79 year old Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung guide book is complete and in good used condition.

This official 1938 Munich Nazi art exhibition catalog is ** SOLD **   USM book # 363

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Also for sale on USMBOOKS.com, additional catalogs to the Greater German
Art Exhibitions for the years 1937, 1939, 1940 , 1942, 1943 and 1944
as well as original heavily illustrated Nazi art publications.