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Art of Germany Season 1 Episode 3

Episode Title: In the Shadow of Hitler
Genre: History
Countries: United Kingdom,
Airing Date: December 13, 2010
Runtime:60 min
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Andrew Graham-Dixon concludes his exploration of German art by investigating the dark and difficult times of the 20th century.Dominating the landscape is the figure of Adolf Hitler - failed artist, would-be architect and obsessed with the aesthetics of his 1,000-year Reich. In a series of extraordinary building projects and exhibitions, Hitler waged a propaganda war against every kind of modern art as a prelude to unleashing total war on the whole of Europe.After the war the shadow of the Third Reich persisted, Germany remained divided and traumatised. How would artists deal with a past that everybody wanted to forget? From the work of Otto Dix and George Grosz and the age of the Bauhaus to the post-war painters Georg Baselitz, Hilla Becher and the conceptual artist Joseph Beuys is a long strange journey, but the signs are there that art has a place at the heart of the new reunited Germany.