Henri Matisse. The Blue Window. 1913

The Degenerate Art exhibition focused mainly on German art and artists. However, the Nazis' assault on modern art went much further. While 120 artists were exhibited, works by approximately 1,400 artists—including Henri Matisse and other notable French modernists—were banned from German museums. Matisse’s The Blue Window was removed from the Folkwang Museum in Essen. It had originally been acquired by the German arts patron Karl Ernst Osthaus, who had assembled a collection of avant-garde art, one of the first in Germany to include many works by contemporary French artists.

from: Degenerate Art / MOMA