Canvas & Consequence

The Painting That Started a War (No, Literally)

Episode Summary

In 1937, a single exhibition in Munich became the most-visited art show in history — not because it was good, but because Hitler designed it to humiliate. We dig into the Nazi 'Degenerate Art' show, the modernist masterpieces that were publicly mocked, secretly coveted, and quietly sold off to fund a regime that claimed to despise them — and what it reveals about who really gets to decide what art means.