This morning's Der Spiegel has an interesting article – 'Hello Lenin' Berlin to Resurrect its Disgraced Monuments.  A massive sculpture of Lenin is the article's hook.  The Lenin bust will join in a special exhibit at Berlin's Spandau Citadel other shunned art works from Nazi and Prussian eras.

One of the Nazi monuments going on show will be sculptor Arno Breker's "Decathlete." Gerhard Hanke, the Spandau district councillor in charge of cultural affairs, said: "The exhibition will attract international attention."

Attention yes and it will range from Israeli horror to Stormfront  joy and somewhere in between my view which is certainly not horror or joy but something closer to pleasure that art can be liberated from the political context of its creation. I like Breker's work just as much as I like Picasso's. Their politics are irrelevant although Breker used his cosy relationship with Nazi clients/patrons to block Picasso's arrest in 1940's Paris.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all      Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'