There is a fair amount of interest, therefore money, in his works today and there is a shadowy campaign to 'de-Nazify' his history. The lies are laughable and illogical as they attempt in vain to 'rehabilitate' him. And to make matters worse, the claims about him falling out with National Socialism are done by an auction house which just so happens to sell his works.

In 1932 he joined the NSDAP, unlike the majority of NSDAP members Fidus didn't wait for Adolf Hitler to become Chancellor. Fidus' work fit very well with the aesthetic of Blood and Soil and National Socialism in general. So it was a natural marriage of the two. It is rather hilariously claimed that Fidus made the image of Adolf Hitler [below] in a vain attempt to gain support of the Party, but the Führer hated it so much he banned it from sale! I guess whomever invented this tall tale never saw the hundreds of other Adolf Hitler art pieces which are far worse than this Fidus piece (not that it is bad). It is claimed that Fidus was banned by the NSDAP in 1937 for 'promotion of esotericism' and labeled 'degenerate art'. Walther Darré and Heinrich Himmler watch out! What a silly and pitiful statement.

The real kicker of these lies is that in 1943 the NSDAP gave him an artist's pension!? So they banned him and paid him as one of the country's artists? What foolishness they want us to believe. This last fact regarding the pension is all we needed to know to tell that the history they are attempting to paint is total bullshit. Anyway, on with the degenerate art!

Update I:

I found some interesting information from:

Fidus (1868-1948)
A German Artist from Theosophy to Nazism
Massimo Introvigne (UPS, Torino, Italy)
International Conference on Theosophical History
London, September 18, 2016

The material is taken from:

https://www.cesnur.org/2016/fidus.pdf

'Fidus depicted several times Lucifer (right), not, he wrote, as the "filthy devil of the priests" but as "the oldest son of God, who should awake self consciousness."
He also depicted the Archangel Michael, who so much fascinated Steiner, with "the swastika as a war symbol on the belt and on his chest the Aryan Seal of the Salt Man,"
which was counterfeited by the earlier Jewish Freemasons into the "Seal of Solomon"'
[page 23]

'Fidus entered into a period of disillusionment after the German defeat in World War I. His Germans were increasingly represented as emaciated and suffering (right),
while his art went largely out of fashion, replaced by the new avant-garde. Fidus despised the avant-garde and regarded both its
success and his own marginalization as products of an anti-German Jewish conspiracy.'
[page 38]

'As Nazism developed, Fidus became persuaded that it represented the genuine voice of the German Volk and the heir of the ideals of Lebensreform (left).
In 1929, he became a member of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur (Alliance for German Culture), founded by Alfred Rosenberg.
In 1930, Fidus heard Joseph Goebbels speaking and started corresponding with him. In 1932, he joined the Nazi Party.'
[page 39]

'In 1943, he was recognized by the regime with a title of honorary professor. "I take this as a sign of hope," he wrote, and even rejoiced at the destruction of the churches and cathedrals by the Allied bombers,
since through them a space was finally being cleared on which he could erect his Nordic temples after the war would have been won by Germany.'
[page 42]

Update II:

A resourceful German comrade found the proof we needed that Fidus wasn't hated by the National Socialists. Quite the contrary! Many thanks my comrade M.! You are a priceless treasure.

The following is an English translation of the original German, taken from the book:

'Fidus, 1868-1948; zur asthetischen Praxis burgerlicher Fluchtbewegungen'
by Janos Frecot, (c) 1972

This ends all lies about Fidus, Adolf Hitler and National Socialism. Your lies end here.

[Above: Adolf Hitler by Fidus, 1941.]