ART

An exhibition of Expressionist and abstract paintings banned 50 years ago by the Nazis opened Sunday in the East German city of Halle, the official news agency ADN reported. The show--which included paintings by artists Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc and El Lissitzky--was planned to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the exhibition of “Degenerate Art” organized by the Nazis in Munich. The artists’ work, created in the 1920s and 1930s, was labeled as degenerate and banned under the Nazi cultural doctrine formulated by Adolf Hitler.