The Degenerate Series

“If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.  Anybody who paints and sees a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized.” [Adolf Hitler]

From approximately 1927 through World War II, the Nazi Regime confiscated, banned and destroyed artwork that they felt to be Entartete Kunst, or “Degenerate Art”.   Artists who created works labeled as “Degenerate” were removed from their jobs, banned from free creative expression, and prevented from exhibiting or producing their art.   The Degenerate Series is a collection of Portraits and Original Compositions done in oil which serve to acknowledge and honor the great art and artists affected by the Nazi Regime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

From the DAMN Collection: A Scene from The Degenerate Art Museum Nationale, Oil on Canvas 24×18″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oil on Canvas 10×8″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

The Face of Max Pechstein, Oil on Canvas 10×8″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Oil on Canvas 10×8″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Erich Heckel, Oil on Canvas 10×8″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Profile of Emil Nolde, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Oskar Kokoschka, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Gert Wollheim, Oil on Canvas 10×8″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Ludwig Meidner, Oil on Canvas 10×8″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Marc Chagall, Oil on Canvas 20×16″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Wassily Kandinsky, Oil on Canvas 20×16″, © Copyright 2012 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Alexej von Jawlensky, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Franz Marc, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

The Color of Paul Klee, Oil on Canvas 20×16″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Lyonel Feininger, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Heinrich Campendonk, Oil on Canvas 10×8″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Hans Richter, Oil on Canvas 10×8″, © Copyright 2012 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Otto Freundlich, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2012 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Max Ernst, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2012 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Kurt Schwitters, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2012 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Hans Grundig, Oil on Canvas 10×8″, © Copyright 2012 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Otto Dix, Oil on Canvas 20×16″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Conrad Felixmuller, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of George Grosz with Pipe, Oil on Canvas 10×8″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Max Beckmann, Oil on Canvas, 20×16″, © Copyright 2010 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Kathe Kollwitz, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Jean Metzinger, Oil on Canvas 14x11", © Copyright 2012 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Jean Metzinger, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2012 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Laszlo Moholoy-Nagy, Oil on Canvas © Copyright 2013 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oil on Canvas © Copyright 2013 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Christian Rohlfs, Oil on Canvas 14x11", © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

Portrait of Christian Rohlfs, Oil on Canvas 14×11″, © Copyright 2011 Alan Derwin

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