Hi Paul, long time no. Yes, Art Deco is very beautiful! But the origin of Art Deco is in France. France and Germany were very opposed. France never accepted the Germans (and Italians) in anything international, I refer to all international congresses from 1933 until the war broke out. Art Deco, the swirls and soft curves, were not the base for Deutsche Kunst. But yes there are many similarities. Still, the architects Speer for instance and Julius Schulte-Frohlinde (way better then Speer but Speer was a better politician) who designed MANY "Sch�nheit und Arbeit" buildings, were Neo-Classicists. Also National Socialist sculptures were very clasiclike shaped. Culture, prescribs the ultimate human bodies, for exemple. Still I'm only just getting into this .. The American car Lincoln Zephyr is the exemple of US Art Deco car design. The German Steyr, or Steyr-Daimler, looks very much like it, in design, I agree. I have some awesome ads for Steyr, I'll look up so you can see, but you porbably know it. But, I dont know if any Gottbegnadete K�nstler were Art Deco artists.
Bye,
KR
