The Music Survives! Music Suppressed by the Third Reich (1996)

The figure of a black saxophone player with a Star of David represents the survival of music. This character was created by the Nazis as a portrayal of everything Degenerate Music represented. It is a grotesque exaggeration of the original poster for the work "Jonny spielt auf", an opera by Ernst Krenek that reflected the new modern age musically as well as with scenery and in subject matter. The saxophone player with a Star of David carnation was used as the face for all the art not officially approved by the Nazi regime: the entire group of painters, sculptors, writers and composers whose body of work became known as "Entartete Kunst" or "Degenerate Art".