L’Art “dégénéré” at Musée Picasso, Paris

L’Art “dégénéré” at Musée Picasso, Paris

In the spring of 1933, Alfred H. Barr, four years into his directorship of the new Museum of Modern Art, arrived in Stuttgart from Manhattan. He had been having trouble sleeping. Insomnia was one of the disorders treated by a noted local psychoanalyst, Dr Otto Garthe. If his words lulled the young MoMA director, however, others Barr was to hear in Stuttgart did not. Hitler had come to power a few weeks before. Attending a lecture at the city’s n…