 The Nazis declared both his film and his sculpture as "degenerate art" putting an immediate end to both activities.Although he was allowed to continue these pursuits from 1945, the post-war spirit and economy did not embrace this, and the long break and huge changes in the new post-war world meant he did not resume his art to any meaningful degree.He did one portrait in this later period, an oil painting of Karl Hofer in 1947.