Nazi art policy reflected the regime’s “blood and soil” ideology: scenes depicting the hard but “honorable” life of workers and peasants were among the regime’s preferred pictorial motifs. This painting by Leopold Schmutzler (1864-1940) was exhibited in the “Great German Art Exhibition” of 1940 in Munich.
Source: “Working maidens”, painting by Leopold Schmutzler. Photo:
Rainer Maria Schopp.
bpk-Bildagentur, image number 00008129. For
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© bpk / Rainer Maria Schopp