
Gentilini is a lot more popular in his home country. I could not really find out what he did during World War II, but I ran across this interesting summary of art between the wars:
As the Weimar Republic collapsed and Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, the new classicism—Parisian myths, Italian role-playing, and the German search for objectivity—was monstrously transformed into a quasi-scientific doctrine of human perfection under the Nazis.
There are lots of examples of Gentilini's art at this site: lots of nudes, lots of art history refs, and lots of fun. And cats:

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