Artwork made is East Germany has long been reserved to the trash-bins of art history under the assumption that a more controlling state stifles true artistic creation. Even now, some artists rail against the notion of treating East German Art as true art at all...but a new online gallery seeks to change that...or at least let people make their own decision. More than 20,000 seldom seen images are being put online in an attempt to legitimize East German art and its artists.
Many take offense to the attacks from West German artists, such as Georg Baselitz who famously stated that there were no artists in East Germany, saying they have ulterior motives and calling their attacks "sheer nonsense."
What do you think? Do government restrictions make true art impossible or does denouncing an entire population of work because of their oppressive government seem somewhat ironic and oppressive in itself?
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