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Nazi and fascist visual culture

Adolf Hitler had always valued art and saw it as a potent political tool to express National Socialist ideology. He raged against the experimentation of contemporary art with its focus on cosmopolitan culture and distinguished between degenerate international influences and an ideal German art based on ancient Greek and Roman traditions (which the. Italian dictator Mussolini also celebrated) and the art of the Northern Renaissance. The Nazi state forbid many artists from producing work and murdered others.