Full Name: Wiegand, Schreiber
Gender: male
Date Born: unknown
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: Germany
Overview
Director of the Kunsthütte in Chemnitz (greater Dresden) in the 1920s. A conservative, he questioned the inclusion of German Expressionist artists in the traveling “Die neue Sachlichkeit” show originating from the Mannheim Kunsthalle, organized by Gustav Hartlaub. Wiegand felt the works in question were Bolshvistic. His requesting that these works be eliminated was an early example of politcal art censorship in Germany which climaxed with the Nazi attacks on modern in in 1933-1937.
Sources
Barron, Stephanie. “Modern Art and Politics in Prewar Germany,”in Barron, Stephanie, ed. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, p. 8.