Ivo Saliger, Junge Frau

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‘Junge Frau’ (‘Young woman’)
Biography: Ivo Saliger

Saliger often painted women as fantasized and idealized images of male desire. This not only reflected but also helped to formulate women’s position in Nazi culture.  Although many women were portrayed as icons of beauty, the formulaic and debased classical style in which they were painted tended to de-eroticize them, emphasizing instead their utilitarian procreative function. In 1934 Goebbels explained the role that women were to play in the Nazi design of things when he wrote, ‘Women have the task of being beautiful and bringing children into the world, and this is by no means as coarse and old fashioned as one might think. The female bird preens herself for her mate and hatches her eggs for him.’

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