Adolf Hitler's Paintings

Forget the art. His true skill was as a captivating orator. All that total war stuff was a mistake IMO. Especially as it lead to his eventual suicide. Talk about a missed opportunity for a potentially lucrative post war career as an after dinner speaker.
 
From 1908 to 1913, Hitler tinted postcards and painted houses for a living. He painted his first self-portrait in 1910 at the age of 21. This painting, along with twelve other paintings by Hitler, were discovered by Company Sergeant Major Willie J. McKenna in 1945 in Essen, Germany.


Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ in 1913 by Adolf Hitler

Samuel Morgenstern, an Austrian businessman and a business partner of the young Hitler in his Vienna period, bought many of the young Hitler's paintings. According to Morgenstern, Hitler came to him for the first time in the beginning of the 1910s, either in 1911 or in 1912. When Hitler came to Morgenstern's glazier store for the first time, he offered Morgenstern three of his paintings. Morgenstern kept a database of his clientele, through which it had been possible to locate the buyers of young Hitler's paintings. It is found that the majority of the buyers were Jewish. An important client of Morgenstern, a lawyer by the name of Josef Feingold, bought a series of paintings by Hitler depicting old Vienna.
 
The standard back then was waaaay higher. All you need to do these days is stick a few teabags on a radiator and you'll get an award.
 

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