Adolf Wissel was an official painter of the Nazi party. Farm Family is supposed to be an ideal, but its figures all look so sad. Its like Regionalism purified--and probably took influence from modern art despite Nazi aesthetic enforcement--but equally sad. What a weird propaganda piece. It is more a summation of the Third Reich's havoc than its genocidal promise of prosperity.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
419. Farm Family from Kahlenberg - Adolf Wissel - 1939
Adolf Wissel was an official painter of the Nazi party. Farm Family is supposed to be an ideal, but its figures all look so sad. Its like Regionalism purified--and probably took influence from modern art despite Nazi aesthetic enforcement--but equally sad. What a weird propaganda piece. It is more a summation of the Third Reich's havoc than its genocidal promise of prosperity.
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