Postcard from Paris, France: Purging art to ‘cleanse’ culture Above: “The Pinch of Snuff (Rabbi),” Marc Chagall (1887-1985), mid-1920s This painting, in which a rabbi sells his soul to Satan for a pinch of tobacco, was acquired by the Mannheim Kunsthalle in 1928. In 1933, Mannheim became the scene of an intense campaign of purge and defamation of modern art orchestrated by the Nazis….…
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