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The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held in 1937 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. The Musée de l'Homme
Musée de l'Homme

The Mus?e de l'Homme was created in 1937 by Paul Rivet, for that year's Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne ....
 was created at this occasion.

g the most notable exhibitions of the fair was the Spanish Pavilion. The fair took place during the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'?tat by a group of Spanish Army generals, supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right , Carlist groups and the fascistic Falange, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of pr...
; the pavilion of the embattled Second Spanish Republic
Second Spanish Republic

The Second Spanish Republic was the system of government in Spain between April 14 1931, when King of Spain Alfonso XIII of Spain left the country following local and municipal elections in which republican candidates won the majority of votes in urban areas and April 1 1939, when the last of the Republican forces surrendered to Nationalist...
 included Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego Jos? Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Mar?a de los Remedios Cipriano de la Sant?sima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was a Spanish people Painting, drawing, and Sculpture....
's famous painting "Guernica
Guernica (painting)

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, showing the bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty-eight Germany bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War....
", a depiction of the horrors of war.

Two of the other notable pavilions were those of Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 and the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
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The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held in 1937 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. The Musée de l'Homme
Musée de l'Homme

The Mus?e de l'Homme was created in 1937 by Paul Rivet, for that year's Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne ....
 was created at this occasion.

Exhibitions

Among the most notable exhibitions of the fair was the Spanish Pavilion. The fair took place during the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'?tat by a group of Spanish Army generals, supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right , Carlist groups and the fascistic Falange, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of pr...
; the pavilion of the embattled Second Spanish Republic
Second Spanish Republic

The Second Spanish Republic was the system of government in Spain between April 14 1931, when King of Spain Alfonso XIII of Spain left the country following local and municipal elections in which republican candidates won the majority of votes in urban areas and April 1 1939, when the last of the Republican forces surrendered to Nationalist...
 included Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego Jos? Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Mar?a de los Remedios Cipriano de la Sant?sima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was a Spanish people Painting, drawing, and Sculpture....
's famous painting "Guernica
Guernica (painting)

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, showing the bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty-eight Germany bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War....
", a depiction of the horrors of war.

Two of the other notable pavilions were those of Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 and the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
. The organization of the world exhibition had placed the German and the Soviet pavilions directly across each other. Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
 had desired to withdraw from participation, but his architect Albert Speer
Albert Speer

Albert Speer was a Germany architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Nazi Germany. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office....
, who had by coincidence seen the Soviet pavilion plans while visiting Paris, convinced him to participate after all, showing Hitler his plans for the German pavilion.

Plagued by delay, at the opening day of the exhibition, only the German and the Soviet pavilions were completed. This, as well as the fact that the two pavilions faced each other, turned the exhibition into somewhat of a personal competition between the two great ideological rivals.

Five hundred feet high, Speer's pavilion was completed by a tall tower crowned with the symbols of the Nazi state: an eagle and the swastika
Swastika

The swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at Angle#Types of angles, in either right-facing form or its mirrored left-facing form....
. The pavilion was conceived as a monument to "German pride and achievement". It was to broadcast to the world that a new and powerful Germany had a restored sense of national pride. At night, the pavilion was illuminated by floodlights. Speer later revealed in his autobiographies that he had had a clandestine look at the plans for the Soviet pavilion, and had designed the German pavilion to represent a bulwark against Communism.

Vera Mukhina
Vera Mukhina

Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina was a prominent Soviet sculptor.She was born in Riga into a wealthy merchant family, she lived at Turgeneva st. 23/25....
 designed the large figurative sculpture on the Soviet pavilion for the exhibition, whose architect was Boris Iofan. The grand building was topped with a large momentum-exerting statue, of a male worker and a female peasant, their hands thrusting a hammer and a sickle together, in a symbol of communist union.

Awards

At the presentation, both Speer
Albert Speer

Albert Speer was a Germany architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Nazi Germany. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office....
 and Iofan
Boris Iofan

Boris Mihailovich Iofan was a Russian Soviet architect, known for his Stalinist architecture buildings like 1931 House on Embankment and the 1931-1933 winning draft of the Palace of Soviets....
, who also designed the Palace of Soviets
Palace of Soviets

The Palace of Soviet was a project to construct an administrative center and a congress hall in Moscow, Russia, near the Moscow Kremlin, on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour ....
 that was planned to be constructed in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, were awarded gold medals for their respective designs. Also, for his model of the Nuremberg party rally grounds, the jury granted Speer, to his and Hitler's surprise, a Grand Prix.

Artist Johanne deRibert Kajanus, mother of composer Georg Kajanus
Georg Kajanus

Georg Kajanus is a Norwegian composer and singer/songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer-songwriter for the British pop group, Sailor ....
 and film-maker Eva Norvind
Eva Norvind

Eva Norvind was a writer, documentary producer, director, sex therapist/ dominatrix, and former actress of the cinema of Mexico. She was the mother of telenovela actress Nailea Norvind and the sister of composer and singer/songwriter Georg Kajanus....
, granddaughter of composer and conductor Robert Kajanus
Robert Kajanus

Robert Kajanus was a Finland conductor and composer....
, and grandmother of actress Nailea Norvind
Nailea Norvind

Nailea Norvind is a Mexico television actress who also appeared in the critically-acclaimed film Gaby: A True Story. She also lent her voice to play Princess Kida in the Spanish dubbing of Atlantis: The Lost Empire....
, won the bronze medal for her life-size sculpture of 'Mother and Child' at the exhibition.

Polish engineers from Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
 won the gold medal for new Polish locomotive Pm36-1 PKP class Pm36
PKP class Pm36

Pm36 is the name for a Poland experimental fast steam locomotive used by PKP....
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Festivals of the Exposition

  • 23 May The Centenary of the Arc de Triomphe
    Arc de Triomphe

    The Arc de Triomphe is a monument in Paris, France that stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, also known as the Place de l'?toile....
  • 5 June-13 The International Floralies
  • 26 June Motorboat races on the Seine
    Seine

    The Seine is a slow flowing major river and commercial waterway within Regions of France of ?le-de-France and Haute-Normandie in France and famous as a romantic backdrop in photographs of Paris, France....
  • 29 June Dance Festival
  • 3 July Horse Racing
  • 4 July-11 Rebirth of the City
  • 6 July-7-8 Midsummer Night's Dream (In the gardens of Bagatelle
    Château de Bagatelle

    File:Paris Bagatelle 01.jpgThe Ch?teau de Bagatelle is a small neo-classical ch?teau in the Bois de Boulogne in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris....
    )
  • 21 July Colonial Festival
  • 27 July World Championship Boxing Matches
  • 30 July-10 August The True Mystery of the Passion (before Notre Dame Cathedral
    Notre Dame de Paris

    Notre Dame de Paris is a Gothic architecture cathedral on the eastern half of the ?le de la Cit? in the 4th arrondissement of Paris of Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west....
    )
  • 12 September Grape Harvest Festival
  • Forty Two International Sporting Championships
  • Every Night: Visions of Fairyland on the Seine


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See also

  • Nazi architecture
    Nazi architecture

    Nazi architecture was an architecture plan and integral part of the Nazi party's plans to create a cultural and spirituality rebirth in Germany as part of the Third Reich....
  • Stalinist architecture
    Stalinist architecture

    Stalinist architecture is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khruschev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture....
  • Streamline Moderne
    Streamline Moderne

    Streamline Moderne, sometimes referred to by either name alone, was a late branch of the Art Deco design style. Its architectural style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements ....
     architecture