Art experts claim “Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy” was artist Henry Gibbs’ commentary on the English Civil War.

So went the 1940s—a decade split into wartime devastation and scarcity, followed by peacetime innovation and abundance.

The first truly global military conflict, World War I, scarred and reshaped entire generations of men and women. For many, it ...

“Degenerate Art” ran in Munich for four months and for ... for German culture” (a term that resonates with “culture war”). It was founded on the premise that German culture was under ...