Art in the Third Reich

I think that the determination of what was considered "good art" and "bad art" was solely based on the views that Hitler had. Through the art that was considered to be good and bad we get a look into Hitler's characteristics. For example his obsession with the Roman empire was not only evident with in the art that was considered to be good art, but also because he obtained numerous pieces of of art that were representations of the Romans. He also began ordering statues to be created that resembled the big and strong statues that were seen very often within Ancient Rome. It coincides very well with Hitler's ideology of the arian race. These statues were built to represent very strong and powerful people which is what Hitler wanted the people of Germany to be like. In a lot of the paintings that he selected the people within them seemed to be very clean, which was also very important to Hitler. Stepping into the realm of what was considered bad art is very disturbing, in the sense that most people would still consider that art good art. Any art that was created by a Jew was put off as bad art. This is obviously not something that a normal person would do, but we all know that Hitler wasn't exactly normal. Hitler also seemed to not car for modern art too much or anything that was abstract. His obsession with perfection in turn limited his opinion of what good art really was. It is very unfortunate that in this time because of Hitler so many artist's did not get the respect that they deserved, and their works were destroyed all because one man was so narrow-minded.