Hitlers artwork

During his Vienna years he sold a lot of his picture postcards.

Vis a vis his interest in architecture, he also must have made sketches and drawings with and for Speer et al.

I am wondering if any of these survive in collections, are on display or published etc?

book entitled 'ADOLF HITLER: The Unknown Artist'. He sent a copy to several classmates. I do not know if any were sold. He is reputed to have one of the largest collection of Hitler art in the world. The book is very professionally done, but I cannot vouch for the art. I am 'artistically tone deaf'. The book contains 259 pages of Hitler's watercolors and sketches

An interesting essay/book review of 'Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics' which discusses Hitler's artistic talent and taste can be found at
http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2004/003/6.10.html

Chris Mark

If you type Hitler as artist into Google, the first site that comes up has four supposed Hitler paintings shown for sale (three of them sold as of this morning). It contains a quote from your friend's book, so evidently it is known in the trade.
http://www.pzg.biz/hitler_the_artist.htm

There was a controversial exhibit at Williams College two years ago, described as follows:

'Prelude to a Nightmare: Art, Politics, and Hitler's Early Years in Vienna 1906-1913,' an exhibit of 150 paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, posters, theatrical designs, vintage film footage, photographs, books, and pamphlets.

One assumes that at least some of those 150 objects were actually Hitler's work.

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I have seen some reproductions of Hitler's paintings in various media. They did not strike me as anything notable but they did look competently rendered. Of course, when Hitler did these he was still a starving artist type who had not found his 'vision' or 'style'. I don't know if Hitler had it in him to become a great artist or not. But history probably would have been far different if Hitler's works had become profitable and highly sought after. If Hitler had had economic success as an artist, I doubt he would have ever gotten into politics except tangentially. As it was, Hitler showed quite a bit of talent in politics and rhetoric. Just because the guy had repugnant goals does not mean that he wasn't talented. Had Hitler been inept and incompetent, he would have been harmless. It was his talent and his evil goals that made him incredibly dangerous.

There are two types of Genius 'Good' and 'Evil', Hitler was an evil Genius !

People do not want to admit this, but he was a genius. He rose from the ranks of nothingness to take control of Germany, nearly all of Europe and perhaps the world. A dumb-dumb could not have done all of this !

In Mein Kamf he recals that his painting/sckeetching stuff got stolen on a train station in france during ww1.

Albert Speer is worth reading on the subject of Hitler's fascination with architecture, not only the monuments Speer conceived for him but also such places as the Opera in Paris (now the Palais Garnier).

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Excuse me, but I thought the subject was A. Hitler's art.

Hitler supported himself in Munich by his paintings (mostly watercolors). They were sold to tourists and produced as upscale souvenirs. Yes, they are competently done. An excellent book is 'ADOLF HITLER, The Unknown Artist', by Billy F. Price, ISBN:0-9612894-0-6; Library of Congress Catalog Number: 83-091311.

I am not an art critic, but it seems clear that, as an artist, Hilter was better than Churchill or Ike.

Who knows? I have heard his work critiqued by art experts who find him a competent draftsman of objects but lacking any ability to render the human form convincingly or in proper scale with his buildings.

But history probably would have been far

There was a science fiction/alternate history novel some years ago

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