Gott Mit Uns

Adolf Hitler, Schottenkirche auf der Freyung, 1910

The Greater German Art Exhibition (Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung) On July 18, 1937, Adolf Hitler opened the first annual Great German Art Exhibition. Hitler partly put on two art exhibitions ("Degenerate Art Museum" and “Greater German Art Museum”) in Munich, 1937. The House of German Art was built 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. ‘The task of art is not to recall signs of degeneration, but to convey well-being and beauty, strength and health, attachment to the land, to work and German traditions were the values exalted by the Great German Art Exhibition’ - Adolf Hitler