Art and Design during the Nazi Movement.
Germany during the Nazi movement controlled the art produced between 1933 and 1945 to ensure they embodied the ethics they wanted to teach the German people. Highly eristic and aesthetic pieces romanticized everyday subjects and repeated outmoded stereotyped Nazi principles of the human body and its reasons in the Reich. Adolph Hitler and his image gave him opportunity to have a status as a god in Germany. When Hitler was made superior over the normal people, the artists made Hitler a being that if had spiritual goodness would take the Germanic race to the perfect future. The architecture, or so-called "ideology in stone", was also a vessel for political ideology. The massive buildings were a proof to represent the strong and virtuous nature of the thousand years Reich. Therefore, art in the Third Reich was just a form of propaganda that encouraged the superiority of the Nordic race, the hunger for faithfulness and obedience of the German nation. Paintings of the Nordic peasants certified a come back of the pre-industrial nonviolent rural Germany. The oil painting Kalenberg Farm Family, by Adolph Wissel, portrays a warm situation of a family relaxing, most probably after a working day in the field. It is an art that can be accepted by anybody that watches the painting, that the D. Duchamp would name retinal art, because it is an aesthetically motivated and stylistically anti-modernist piece. The warm colors are attractive, in order to highlight the peacefulness of the scene. The composition is extremely ordered, controlled, and dignified, there is no indication of social unrest under the rule of the Third Reich, it is an ideal Utopia where the every day person a subject worthy of intense interest. This was a very popular subject as showed by the many paintings that were alike in genre, for example "Rest during the Harvest" by George Gunter, and "Farm Girls returning from the Fields" by Leopold Schmutzter.
