Hanns Neudecker, Herbsttag

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				Price: USD  45,000

Description

‘Herbsttag’ (‘The Autumn Day’)
Biography: Hanns Neudecker

Displayed at the GDK 1942 room 6.
Bought by Albert Speer for 3,500 Reichsmark.
With original frame. 

‘Herbsttag’ by Neudecker, displayed at the GDK 1942 room 2.

Albert Speer bought in total 8 works by Neudecker at the GDK’s.

Albert Speer’s art purchases 
‘Alber Speer was an avid collector of art. …However, he made most of his purchases in some official capacity. As Generalbauinspector (General Building Inspector, supposed to reshape Berlin in line with the National Socialist representation of power), Speer bought hundreds of works to decorate the buildings he designed. The New Reich Chancellery budget alone allowed him to acquire 185 paintings at a cost of 366,230 Reichsmark. He purchased these works from a wide variety of sources, ranging from the Haus der Deutschen Kunst to the Vereinigung Bildender Künstler in Vienna….Speer also gave a great number of paintings to colleagues as gifts, for example to Adolf Hitler, to Hermann Göring, Admiral Dönitz, Hans Lammers (Chief of the Reichs Chancellery), Colonel Hans Schaede, etc….. Speer also had special sources for artworks. He noted in his memoirs: ‘If I myself wanted to give paintings to associates, I chose them among the excluded pictures stored in the cellars of the House of German Art’.’ From: ‘Art as Politics in the Third Reich’, by Jonathan Petropoulos, 1996.

From 1938 – 1944 Neudecker was represented with 21 works at the GDK’s. 

Prominent GDK-artists 
‘From a total of 2,465 artist only 197 participated 7 or 8 times at the GDK’s. This relative small circle of artists could be called representative of the GDK’s organizer’s aims and ideas. Among the 197 names can be found the best-known artist of the Third Reich as well as those whom Hitler particularly appreciated and whose works he bought…One can therefore safely conclude that this core group of artist represented the politico-cultural ideas of National Socialism and, at the same time, determined the public perception of the GDK’s…”. From: ‘Hitler’s Salon’, by Ines Schlenker, 2007)

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