slobbering: Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Kneeling Woman. 1911 Cast stone, 69 ½ x 56 x 27" (176.5 x 142.2
slobbering: Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Kneeling Woman. 1911 Cast stone, 69 ½ x 56 x 27" (176.5 x 142.2 x 68.6 cm).After Kneeling Woman, by the German artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck, had been labeled “degenerate art” by the Nazis and removed from the Kunsthalle Mannheim, The Museum of Modern Art purchased the sculpture through the Buchholz Gallery in New York in 1939. It was one of the three casts that had been banned from German museums in 1937. MoMA’s founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., announced the acquisition, writing, “The Kneeling Woman is one of the great masterpieces of modern sculpture and was so regarded in the native land of the artist for many years.”While searching Slobbering’s archives for anything “flagged” by Tumblr as forbidden under the new community guidelines, I discovered many were famous nude sculptures. So I have decided to post some of the work that was banned by the Nazi’s in the 1930s after being labeled “Degenerate Art”. How ironic would it be if Tumblr decides to ban it as well? Perhaps I will screenshot the red flagged image and send it to MoMA so they can hang it beside the statue along with the Nazi declaration. -- source link