The Nazis seized more than 15,000 works and, in 1937, staged two ‘Degenerate Art’ exhibitions in Munich, featuring the likes of Mammen, Laserstein, Modersohn-Becker and Höch. Although the exhibitions were staged to explicitly mock these artists, what they did in fact was to put on public view some of the most revolutionary works in history. Works that spoke truth to both the freedom and tumult and of the age, and captured women in their modern and triumphant glory: accepted, liberated and encapsulating freedom.
