Canvas & Consequence

The Painting That Started a War (No, Literally)

Episode Summary

In 1937, a single art exhibition in Munich became the most visited show in history — not because it was great, but because Hitler designed it to humiliate. We dig into the 'Degenerate Art' purge: how the Nazis weaponized aesthetic taste to destroy careers, erase cultures, and launder ideology as connoisseurship — and why the artists they tried to bury are the ones hanging in every major museum today.