What History Teaches: Art and Experience in a Fragmented World
About the Event
This installment of “What History Teaches” investigates the German Expressionist legacy and influence on the art of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich as Germany entered the 1930s. It explores how Expressionist artists sought to convey emotional truth through abstraction, distortion, and bold color, and how their innovations came into conflict with the Nazi regime’s cultural ideology. As the Nazi regime condemned Expressionist work as Entartete Kunst (“Degenerate Art”), many artists faced censorship, exile, and persecution. And yet, their visual language defied oppression and persevered to produce works of art as images and acts of defiance.
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About the Speakers
Lauren Crampton
Lauren grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. She studied Greek and Latin languages and art history at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She attended graduate school in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. After living and working in Philadelphia for more than a decade, she returned to Tallahassee to teach the history of the Holocaust at HERC.