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Art And Design During The Nazi Movement


Hitler said that "art should be the expressions of the soul and ideals of the community" and these paintings definitely do present the ideals of life that the National Socialists choose to freedom. These values in turn, like a circular motion encouraged the ways of thinking and values of the German people who saw it, by installing a common sense of national self-importance in a natural and moral life lead by the Nazi values. Nazi ideology is also illustrated by "Ploughing", by Julius Paul Junghan. A person who works on a land after some time gets a spiritual harmony with it, so that they become a part of the natural world. The work of art exhibits this ancient German ideology that was appropriated and completed by the Nazis to reduce the policy of Lebensraum or "living space" so the greater Nordic race would be able to take control over and order the land of other inferior nations. The oil countryside painting portrays a man reigning three strong workhorses with an archaic plow. The eyes are drawn from the three horses to the "intellectual" force behind the action with extensive converging lines, thus ploughing the land is a collective action, shared between farmer and animal, working towards a better field, or in figurative terms, better Germany. Once more an extremely romanticized picture of life tangled with nature is presented to manipulate the viewer, making them to join hard work to accomplish a group goal with moral virtue. This theme is repeatedly almost to exhaustion in such works as "Ploughing in the Evening" by Willy Jackel, and "The Sower" by Oskar Martin-Ambach. The Nazi principles are personified more implicitly in "Ploughing" than "Kalenburg Farm Family", as on a sub-conscious level the positive view of expansionist values, the farmer representing a hard working Germany, who is regulator of the land, acts to subtly alter personal views on the Nazi situation. "Water Sports" painted by Albert Janesh in 1936 is a prime example of the way National Socialists encouraged, through the commissioning of the piece, collective action and the superiority of the Germanic body.


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