Munich, July 16.
"Art must cease to be the prerogative of consumptive aesthetes," Herr Hitler stated here today)in a speech in which he traced the general lines of art in the National-Socialist totalitarian state, on the occasion of German Art Day.
The Fuehrer pointed out that in art, as everywhere else, the: state has the right and duty to intervene energetically.
"It is natural that periods of great revolutions leave their mark on art, which must be subjected to prevailing ideas," he said. "An art based on national life must be created, even at the cost of state intervention. Last century did not come up to expectations. The Germany of 1870 was of a powerful political character. But from an ethnical point of view, it remained entirely passive as far as art was concerned.—Havas.
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