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Wegen seiner jüdischen Herkunft waren ihm in Deutschland ab 1933 die Arbeit als Architekt und die Veröffentlichung seiner Bilder verwehrt

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Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York Conspiracy Thrillers social savings clubsA mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals became a crucial site for the development of abstract painting Artists such as Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Lee Krasner created ambitious works for the Williamsburg Housing Project, Floyd Bennett Field Airport, and the 1939 Worlds Fair.