An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938.(Book Review)

Canadian Journal of History | April 1, 2005| | Copyright

An Artist against the Third Reich." Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938, by Peter Paret. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 246 pp. $35.00 US (cloth).

The lot of artists and intellectuals under dictatorships in the twentieth century was generally difficult and often tragic. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, for instance, experienced both acclimation and denunciation at the hands of Soviet officials. During the Stalinist era, he purportedly kept a packed suitcase near the door in the event the secret police arrived in the night to haul him away to prison. In the 1930s, ...

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