The House of German Art, Munich 1937
Cars, cyclists and pedestrians pass the long colonnade of pale limestone columns of the new museum for the art the regime approved.
The new museum stretches away in a long, flat-roofed front of pale limestone, its colonnade of more than twenty square columns bright in the sun under a heavy cornice. A car drives past; cyclists ride along the road in front, a man on a bicycle cuts across close by, and small groups of visitors walk along the broad steps.
Paul Ludwig Troost, Hitler's favourite architect, designed the building before his death in 1934. Hitler opened it on 18 July 1937 with the first Great German Art Exhibition and a speech declaring war on modern art; the next day, a few hundred metres away, the Degenerate Art exhibition opened its doors.
