{"id":1377,"date":"2009-02-12T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/02\/art-without-the-wall\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:07:56","slug":"art-without-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/art-without-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Without The Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Art in Two Germanys Often Spoke the Same Tongue<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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Hans Grundig Estate and Vg Bild-Kunst, Bonn\/Artists Rights Society<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the Victims of Fascism (Second Version),\u201d a work from the late 1940s by Hans Grundig.\u00a0More Photos><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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By\u00a0MICHAEL KIMMELMAN<\/a><\/p>\n

Published: February 11, 2009<\/p>\n

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BERLIN \u2014 East German art, like much of what used to be East Germany itself, hasn\u2019t fared altogether well here since the Wall fell. Twenty years on, victorious Westerners, at least those old enough to remember the country divided, still tend to look with contempt on what passed for culture under Communism, as if the two, culture and Communism, were mutually exclusive. A curious hint of revenge sometimes creeps into their voices.<\/p>\n

Call it communal myopia. A recent article in Die Zeit, a German newsweekly, lamented how the new Moritzburg Museum in Halle shortchanges its own collection of East German paintings, one of the best in the country, \u201cin a way that is almost shameful.\u201d The article wondered whether the curators there weren\u2019t maybe being a little parochial and spiteful, and afraid \u201cto revise overly quick judgments made in the years after the reunification of Germany.\u201d That meant above all the verdict that East German art, like the whole Communist era, would be best forgotten.<\/p>\n

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from the NY Times Art in Two Germanys Often Spoke the Same Tongue Hans Grundig Estate and Vg Bild-Kunst, Bonn\/Artists Rights Society \u201cTo the Victims of Fascism (Second Version),\u201d a work from the late 1940s by Hans Grundig.\u00a0More Photos> By\u00a0MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Published: February 11, 2009 BERLIN \u2014 East German art, like much of what used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}