Johann Kluska, Venus

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‘Venus’
Biography: Johann Kluska

Displayed at the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung 1941, Saal 22.
Large painting of a nude (supposedly his wife), by Johann Kluska. Created in 1940. Displayed at the GDK 1941.
‘Venus’ is a typical theme of totalitarian art.

‘Healthy Aryan flesh’
‘There were the sensual and lingering nudes of Karl Truppe, Gerhardinger, Graf, Ernst Liebermann, Johann Kluska, Schult, Richard Klein, and many others furnished the exhibition with ‘healthy Aryan flesh’ (Peter Adam, ‘Art of the Third Reich’, 1992).

Also displayed at the exhibition ‘Nazi Design’, Design Museum Den Bosch, The Netherlands, 8 September 2019 – 1 March 2020. This world-wide highly publicized exhibition attracted over 130.000 visitors in six months. The exhibition was covered on the front page of the New York Times and Bild, and i.a. in the Guardian, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Paris Match, Spiegel, Welt, Tagesspiegel, El Pais and all Dutch newspapers. On television the exposition was covered i.a. by the ARD, ZDF, DW News, Aljazeera, AFP News Agency, SBS World News, and all mayor television chanels in The Netherlands. Because of the enormous popularity of the exhibition, the museum extended opening hours, opened its doors also on Mondays, and finally it extended the exhibition by 6 weeks.

‘Venus’ by Johann Kluska, displayed at the GDK 1941 room 22.

Johann Kluska, ‘Venus’, depicted in ‘Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich’, March 1942, page 80.

Johann kluska, ‘Venus’, depicted in ‘Münchener Mosaik’, February 1942.

‘Venus’ by Kluska, displayed at the exhibition ‘Nazi Design’, Design Museum Den Bosch, The Netherlands, 8 September 2019 – 1 March 2020.
     

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