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This official 204-page guidebook to the 1940 House of German Art Exhibition is ** SOLD **   USM book #687

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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 was completed by his 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 full exhibition catalog for the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung (Greater German Art Exhibition) held from June through October 1940 at the House of German Art in central München, Germany.

The 204-page, 5-7/8 x 8-1/4 inch heavily illustrated softcover book begins with a portrait of the Führer followed by a picture 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 the principal works of the exhibition (top Nazis, nudes, heroic sculptures, landscapes, etc.) one to a page.

Some of the artists featured in the 1940 catalog are Sepp Hilz, Josef Thorak, Arno Breker, Georg Kolbe, Klimsch, Werner Peiner, Wolf Willrich, Hans Happ, Herbert Kampf, Eduard Thöny, Junghanns, Oskar Martin-Amorbach, Konrad Hommel, Willy Waldapfel, Klaus Bergen, Elk Eber, Paul Mathias Padua, Wamper, etc.

The last pages are advertising for things like SS Allach (Frederick the Great), Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Studios, Rosenthal porcelain, Deutsche Reichspost savings accounts, Germany's biggest advertising agency ALA, Löwenbrau beer, and other products and services.

This 1940 Nazi art exhibition guidebook is complete and in good used condition.  Quite a bit of wear to the cover, but the interior pages are in very nice condition.  No writing, no odor.