Germany will keep out of the thirty-first international show of contemporary painters in Pittsburgh this autumn if the work of Jewish painters is included in the German section, Homer St. Gaudens revealed when he returned to New York yesterday after gathering paintings for the exhibition in Europe.
Mr. St. Gaudens said this was the attitude of Hans Weidemann, Nazi head of the art department of the ministry of public enlightenment and propaganda in Germany. Weidemann is now visiting in this country.
“I selected the work of Max Liebermann and Walheim for the exhibition,” St. Gaudens explained, “but these men did not meet with the approval of the Nazis. Therefore Weidemann made an official decision to keep Germany out of the show.”
The Hitlerites recently ousted Max Liebermann from the presidency of the Prussian Academy of Art and also banned Walheim because his grandfather was a Jew.
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