Friedrich Burgdorfer, Das Haus der Deutschen Kunst 1937-44, Book 1   This statement, which was coined by Adolf Hitler and which he placed over the entrance to the House of German Art, already shows the high importance that was attached to art in the Third Reich. The National Socialists regarded the government takeover of 1933 as a cultural revolution, with which the basis for "a new and true German art" was laid. This new German art was to bring about a fundamental turning point in the entire cultural life of the nation, "the greatness of the new German era born out of blood and soil, out of National Socialist attitudes and worldview", to give expression and be "the cultural basis for the first essentially German nation state for the centuries to come ".   Since the creation of art in the Third Reich as an expression of national culture was subject to the authoritarian framework and demands of the political system, the art created during th