Visitors in front of a projection of the missing painting Schuetzengraben Trench from 1921 to 1923 by the artist Otto Dix - confiscated from the Dresden City Museum in 1937 by the Nazi state as degenerate art and now missing - in the exhibition Zerissene Moderne Torn Modernity The Basel Acquisitions of Degenerate Art in the Kunstmuseum Basel Switzerland. The Torn Modernity exhibition sheds light on the history of the Basel collection from the perspective of museum provenance research, degenerate art from National Socialist cultural policy, and the purchase of works of art by the then director of the house, Georg Schmidt. Museum provenance return
