Exhibition “The Fuhrer´s Capital of Culture”
Art and National Socialism in Linz and Upper Austria
Austria´s Anschluss made National Socialists power fantasies briefly focus on Linz, the European Capital of Culture 2009.
The provincial town where Adolf Hitler had spent part of his youth was to be made over into an industrial and cultural centre.
In 1939 the capital of the Reichsgau Oberdonau, the Nazi´s name for Upper Austria, was declared one of the five “Fuhrer cities” that were to serve as models for future National Socialist town planning.
The exhibition at the Schlossmuseum Linz takes as its theme National Socialist ideas of culture and lays bare its hidden facets by drawing attention to the gap that separated propaganda and reality.
Information here:
www.linz09.at/en/termin-2121604/kulturhauptstadt_des_fueh...
