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Rabindranath Tagore: When Hitler purged India Nobel laureate’s paintings | Soutik Biswas / BBC

24 November 2022

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By Soutik Biswas

India correspondent

Painted in coloured inks and gouache by Rabindranath Tagore, India’s most famous poet, they found a place in a leading museum in Berlin. Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel literature prize, had gifted the paintings to Germany in 1930. Seven years later, the paintings were purged by the Nazi regime which had begun to classify some "inappropriate" art works as degenerate.

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