ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by exploring the small body of loans made by British collectors to the New Burlington Galleries. It considers wider attempts made by British figures to present the exhibition as 'educational'. Sir Michael Sadler began to build an art collection in the years around 1909. The works Sadler provided to London were evidently selected to showcase the widest range within those artists derided as 'degenerate' in Germany, leading his British audience from the figurative drawings of Max Pechstein, via the surrealism of Max Ernst, to the abstractions and mixed-media works of Willi Baumeister and Paul Klee. Like his pamphlet of 1914, Sadler's loans to Twentieth Century German Art some twenty-four years later enabled him articulate his opposition to the German ruling elite, while allowing his role as Germanist mediator, educator and critic to continue. Alongside Sadler, three other British figures have been confirmed as lenders to Twentieth Century German Art.
