Neue Galerie New York opened Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937 on March 13, 2014. The exhibition revisited the Nazi regime's 1937 Entartete Kunst campaign, in which modernist works were staged as cultural pathology and many works were confiscated from German museums. Its importance lay partly in timing: it was described as the first major United States museum exhibition on the subject since the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's 1991 project. By presenting artists such as Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Paul Klee, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in a historical frame of censorship, propaganda, seizure, and exile, the show connected modernism's formal history to the politics of cultural persecution and restitution.
It renewed U.S. museum attention to Nazi attacks on modern art and the afterlives of confiscated works.
![Dance Hall Bellevue [obverse], by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/dance-hall-bellevue-obverse--d1e14aac4297c69e-w320.webp)
