The Union des Artistes Allemands Libres was a federation of exiled German artists living in Paris, France, after the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the establishment of the Third Reich after the Nazis seized power.
[1] Some of the Union's members were defamed in the Nazis' Entartete Kunst exhibit.
In 1938, the Union organized an exhibit called Cinq Ans de Dictateure Hitlerienne ("Five Years of Hitler Dictatorship") that was held in a trade union building.
[3] Members of the Union included Max Ernst, Otto Freundlich, Hans Hartung, Heinz Kiwitz and Gert Wollheim,[4] who was a co-founder.
The Union published Freie Kunst und Literatur, a newsletter that was later taken over by the Cartel Cultural Allemand, also founded in Paris.