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Book SynopsisThe Reich autobahns and their relics are probably the greatest structural heritage of the Nazi era. They were staged extensively in the media: photo competitions captured attractive stretches of road, feature films used the RAB as a backdrop, illustrated books, radio reports and documentaries were published, stamp series, poems, songs and board games were published. And finally the Reichsautobahn was painted, among others by Carl Theodor Protzen. Protzen exhibited most of the works on this subject at the Great German Art Exhibitions and after 1945 his work Straßen des Führers (1939) was usually the only motorway painter to be seen in all major exhibitions of so-called Nazi art in the Federal Republic. Anke Gröner is the first to deal with the still almost completely unexplored artist and at the same time with the motif of the Reichsautobahn, which was the only new subject that Nazi art produced. This, too, has hitherto not been worth considering in detail in art history; the book lays the foundations for performers, exhibitions, buyers, and selling prices.
