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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 December 1943 at the House of German Art in central München, Germany.

This Third Reich catalog is complete and in very nice used condition. No odor.  It is the second to the last catalog for an exhibition at the House of German Art and because of the bombing of München, few people attended the exhibition and few catalogs were sold.

The last 44 pages are advertising for things like SS Allach, Deutsche Reichspost, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, Rosenthal and Nymphenburg Porzellan, Heinrich Hoffmann Studio, Kraft Velveeta cheese, Rodenstock optical company, artist supplies, beer breweries and hotels.

The 192-page, 5-7/8 x 8-1/4 inch heavily illustrated softcover First Edition book begins with a portrait of the Führer followed by a picture of 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, busts, heroic sculptures, landscapes, etc.) one to a page.

Some of the artists featured in the 1943 catalog are Arno Breker, Sepp Hilz, Kurt Schmid-Ehmen, Paul Hermann, Hans Happ, Wilhelm Dachauer, Julius Paul Junghanns, Richard Klein, Josef Thorak,Georg Kolbe, Fritz Klimsch, Hermann Gradl, Franz Eickhorst, Josef Wackerle, Eduard Thöny, Werner Peiner, etc.