VHS tour "Painting was never dead. It was just not allowed."

Between 1933 and 1945, National Socialism tore a deep, gaping wound in the German and European artistic and cultural landscape. In one fell swoop, artists were banned from practicing their profession, persecuted, expelled and in some cases murdered. Their works of art were looted, destroyed, burned and banned. What remains is a heap of ashes and a great silence. Post-war artists are now faced with a big question: what is art and what can it really do? This gave rise to a variety of artistic approaches. Some took up avant-garde ideas from the period before National Socialism, such as the minimalist early work of Imi Knoebel or Blinky Palermo. Others, such as Uwe Lausen and Georg Baselitz, deal with the social traumas and consequences of National Socialism in terms of content and style. On a tour of the Traunreut museum DASMAXIMUM KunstGegenwart, art historian Vanessa Zmudzinski will shed light on the different approaches to coming to terms with the past using selected works of art from the collection.