Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstrasse Berlin 1933–1945: Künstler in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus is the catalogue of an exhibition that documents the

artistic community that coalesced around the Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstraße in Berlin during the National Socialist era. The Klosterstraße group was a collective of painters and sculptors—many of whom were former master students of the Vereinigten Staatsschulen für freie und angewandte Kunst—who occupied subsidised studios in the Klosterstraße building in Berlin from 1933 onwards, navigating artistic practice under the pressures of ideological conformity and state control.

The publication combines historical texts, archival photographs, and biographical entries on individual artists to chart how this community worked, exhibited, and survived during a period marked by censorship, cultural policy, and the pervasive influence of National Socialist art doctrine. It situates the group within broader debates about modernism, “degenerate art,” and artistic autonomy in a repressive political context, providing a nuanced view of artistic life, resistance, and accommodation.

Artists connected with the Klosterstraße community included figures whose careers and histories span various responses to the time’s artistic and political imperatives, and the catalogue offers insight into both collective and individual trajectories within one of Berlin’s significant artists’ milieus. If you’d like, I can also provide a shorter German version of the description.