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DIE KUNST IM DEUTSCHEN REICH HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED NAZI ART MAGAZINES ~ JANUARY - JUNE 1943

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This lot of Die Kunst im deutschen Reich consist of:

January 1943, Ausgabe B*, 44 pages February 1943, Ausgabe A, 24 pages March 1943, Ausgabe A, 24 pages April / May 1943, Ausgabe A, 38 pages June 1943, Ausgabe A, 24 pages

* Ausgabe B edition - all the pages found in the "A" edition PLUS the magazine Die Baukunst (Architectural Art) bound in.

The magazine was large in size (11 x 14 inch), huge is scope and right to the end (Fall 1944) it was published at the direction of Chancellor Adolf Hitler himself by Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachfolger on fine quality paper using the best available inks. It was under the supervision of an extremely prestigious group of directors that included Reichsminister Professor Albert Speer of Berlin, Professor Richard Klein of the Academy of Applied Arts in München and Professor Leonhard Gall of Studio Troost in Munich.

Above, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite painters.

Huge full-page, full-color and black & white photographs dominated the format of Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich. Many of the pictures were never published elsewhere and none were published in a larger format.

There are busts of Professor Kurt Schmidt-Ehmen, Adolf Hitler, Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg (by Arno Breker), Wilhelm Furtwängler (shown next to the picture of the Nazi Putsch monument in Munich, above), Herbert von Karajan, Generalfeldmarschall Helmuth von Moltke, and even Generalfeldmarschall von Hindenburg (by Arno Breker).

These 80+ year old oversized Nazi art magazines also contains female nude sculptures by Fritz Klimsch, Kurt Zimmermann, Rudolf Agricola, Alfred Knott, Hans Jürgen Klein, and Richard Martin Werner.

This Nazi art magazine lot contains heavily (color and black & white) illustrated features on the planned Russian royal castle Orianda on the south coast of Crimea (designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel at the request of Empress Alexandra in 1838), art highlighting the Nazi Labor Service (RAD), the World War I Iron Cross designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (shown left), the Vienna Academy, painter Hans Hermann, paintings and statues with a naval theme (including a famous Claus Bergen painting of a Nazi submarine on the Atlantic shown above) as well as Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite painters).

The weight of these fine Third Reich art magazines is 2-½ pounds and they have a total of 154 heavily illustrated pages. Nice used condition, no odor.

Above, one of the large color pictures featured in the extensive article about the planned (but never realized) Russian royal castle Orianda on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula. It was designed by the remarkable Karl Friedrich Schinkel, a Prussian architect, building officer, monument curator and city planner as well as a painter, illustrator, and stage designer!