(German: entartete Kunst). A pejorative term applied by the Nazi regime to art that did not conform to their ideology.  In 1937 in Munich the Nazis presented “Degenerate Art”, an exhibition featuring some 650 modern artworks confiscated from museums and private collections. The works, by artists such a Ernst Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde and Marc Chagall, were displayed beside slogans painted on walls graffiti-style and text labels mocking the art and the artists. More than two million visitors attended the exhibition in Munich, and it subsequently traveled to Berlin, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Weimar, Halle, Vienna and Salzburg. Web resources here and here.

Front cover of the catalogue for the “Degenerate Art” exhibition. Institute of Archaeology, Munich. 1937.