In January 2010, 16 sculptures were unearthed during excavation work in front of the Red City Hall in Berlin . These were identified as confiscated goods from the Nazi campaign against "degenerate art" .
The first find was the Egyptian bronze portrait of actress Anni Mewes (1896-1980) by Edwin Scharff (1887-1955), which had been missing since 1939.
This bronze portrait from the Bavarian State Painting Collection was confiscated in 1937 and taken to the Berlin Propaganda Ministry.
The Neue Pinakothek is showing the Berlin sculpture find 75 years after the "Degenerate Art" exhibition and is documenting the losses of the state painting collections due to the confiscation.
Today, the Pinakothek der Moderne houses masterpieces including paintings by Beckmann, Kirchner and Schmidt-Rottluff from their so-called original museums in Leipzig, Stettin, Berlin, Halle and Königsberg.
New Pinakothek Munich; By Rufus46 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsGuided tours take place on the following dates:
Wednesdays: November 7th, November 21st, December 5th (6:30 PM)
Monday: December 17th (3:00 PM)
Two lecture evenings will also accompany the exhibition “Degenerate Art”:
26.11.2012:
Matthias Wemhoff (Berlin) speaks about
“Degenerate Art in the Bomb Rubble. Discovery and Interpretation of the Berlin Sculpture Find”.
Christoph Zuschlag (Koblenz-Landau) describes “The Nazi action – Degenerate Art – and its effects on Munich”
03.12.2012:
Helga Gutbrod (Neu-Ulm) speaks about
“The freshness of the original idea: Edwin Scharff’s portrait of Anni Mewes”
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