Artists, writers, musicians and composers all believed that if they could successfully organize their professions, they would be able to win the kind of support the workers’ unions had won. Much of their hostility toward the government was fueled by the knowledge that it offered workers wage support during the inflation. As a result, the educated classes, like the middle class as a whole, blamed the new government for protecting the working class while exploiting the middle classes. Artists protested that art could help revive the economy, enhance Germany’s reputation abroad, unify the Volk and heal the wounds of the nation. Despite such claims, however, their demands went unrealized. Even when the government belatedly funded the Emergency Society for German Art in the summer of 1923, it was too little, too late.
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