Hitler was an adequate Painter, he just couldn't paint people - unfortunately he could mass kill them

The popular history is, Hitler was a starving artist, rejected twice by the Vienna Art Academy, and he blamed the Jews, whom he thought judged him at the school, for his rejection.
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Today some art forgeries sell for prices once only commanded for originals. m/r

Art world shakeup: Painting by Hitler sells for three times a Picasso | WashingtonExaminer.com


BY PAUL BEDARD | FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Further proof that World War II and Nazi artifacts are on fire in the collectors world, a watercolor painted by Adolf Hitler before he became Germany’s mad man dictator sold at auction this week for $35,235, three times the winning bid of an original Picasso drawing.

The watercolor of one of Vienna’s oldest Gothic churches, Maria am Gestade, sold for nearly twice the expected bid prior to the auction atAlexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Md., an international seller of historical artifacts and autographs.

It sold for more than three times the $9,500 winning bid for an original Picasso sketch, a whimsical signed drawing in red crayon on the cover of catalog of his works printed in 1931.

Alexander Historical Auctions President Bill Panagopulos told Secrets that the painting is heading to England. In his auction catalog, he described the painting: "Hitler took great liberties in this work, straightening the alleyway, narrowing the church's exterior walls, and placing buildings closer together. The human figures are virtually identical to those often seen in Hitler's paintings: elongated or amorphous figures poorly represented in every respect. Hitler painted this now de-consecrated church several times, from different perspectives." 

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