Drawing of an Old Peasant from Bavaria by Willrich

Wolf Willrich had been appointed as one of the arbiters of degenerate art, and his own work was above suspicion. His portraits show sturdy, sober, worthy, healthy German peasant types, of the kind found desirable by Darre (q.v.), Hitler's first Minister of Agriculture, and founder of the RUSHA (Service of Race and Settlement). Wilirich's series, Deutscher Blutadel in Aller Welt (Aristocracy of German Blood throughout the World) was the pictorial expression of Darre's concepts. The postcard reproductions were sold in aid of the VDA, Volksbund fur das Deutschtum im Ausland (League of Ex-patriate Germans). His style is reminiscent, especially in the black and white sketches, of another approved German artist, Albrecht Durer. Willrich's characteristic W signature initial, entwined with the date of the portrait, is pseudo-runic in format - another concession to Teutonic ancestry

Albrecht Aller Ancestry Appointed Approved Ausland Characteristic Concepts Concession Darre Degenerate Desirable Deutscher Deutschtum Durer Entwined Especially Format Healthy Initial Pictorial Reminiscent Reproductions Sketches Sober Sturdy Suspicion Teutonic Throughout Volksbund Welt Willrich Worthy

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