Global Context • 1933
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Global Context • 1933
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and creates a one-party state under the National Socialist (Nazi) regime. Along with Jewish citizens and others, cultural practitioners and intellectuals flee Nazi Germany en masse.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.