Not one significant artist or writer lent continuous support to the regime, and almost every major intellectual or cultural figure, from Brecht and Beckmann to Freud and Mann, fled the Reich by 1939. This book tells the story of the art that remained.
Engelen said Mrugalla copied from the works of more than 50 artists, including Pablo Picasso, Germans George Grosz and Max Beckmann and Austrian Oskar Kokoschka.
Beckmann has been circulating his "pro-science, pro-technology, pro-free enterprise" letter for years, and is one of the world's clearest thinkers on peaceful and non-peaceful uses of the atom.