Hitler's Watercolours
I'm amazed. I always knew Hitler was an artist before going into the army in World War 1 but I didn't realise he was quite a capable artist. These are watercolours he painted on the battlefield in 1916.
Hitler lived in Vienna from 1908 to 1913. Despite artistic pretensions, he twice failed to win a place at the city's Academy of Fine Arts. To make a living he painted postcards and advertisements. But no one, not even the people selling them, credits his watercolors with much artistic value. 'No Artistic Value'.
I don't know about that. I think they're quite good. What do you reckon?
Thirty years later Herr Hitler was still painting - this time they were more like architectural renderings. The last one is the famous Eagle's Nest - 
There's more here at Snyders Treasures
BTW Hitler's Watercolours are for sale at $25k each through Snyders.
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IN 1935, Hitler ordered the Nazi Party to find and obtain as many of his paintings as possible. Many were purchased from German citizens for prices of about two years' average salary for a German worker. The assembled pictures were stored in underground bunkers.
Very interesting and thorough article here on the United States refusal to give up some of its looted Hitler artworks - Washington Post
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Signed "A. Hitler"ere's a 1925 Munich streetscene watercolour painted by A. Hitler And another - not sure of the date and place. 
Click on an image to blow it up.
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Another A. Hitler masterpiece - actually I quite like this one.
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A.Hitler again. In this period he was earning a comfortable living painting frame-fillers - paintings that were placed in frames to help sell the frames. I couldn't include the top of the church spire with my capture camera. Not quite ""Every bored housewife can paint better than Hitler" as the commenter below says.
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More extraordinary sketches and paintings here from a Hitler apologist site - Adolf Hitler Research
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"Hitler had his own solution for his artwork. In his will, he wrote that his paintings were intended "exclusively for the establishment of an art gallery in my native town of Linz".
Very interesting article here at The Washington Post about the looting of Hitler's belongings by American servicemen. This is six years old but Snynder is still offering some Hitler watercolours for sale at $25,000 (I emailed him). Through his site Snyders Tresure Trove
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More Hitler Paintings
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Here you go campers - a nude study from Herr Hitler.
Click to blow up! Yeah yeah...I know what you're thinking...you're thinking it's shite right? Or Scheiße rather. There's something not quite right isn't there? Like the head is too small maybe? But still...
I was inspired to put this up after after a site Copyranter tipped me off to - this one - Naked Chicks on Post-it notes
Post it baby
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All the lines are rather childish, there are not definite style, the perspectives are all wrong. The only passable painting is the the room who looks like a "drawing study"
What else..well no shadows, the persons are drawed like a kid would draw people and most importantly the whole sceneries are rather uninteresting, if you are going to show a burning tank put it in the center of the scene.
This demonstrate that he wasn't an artist, he drawed, he even managed to put some stains on a canva. great now calling him a painter is totally overkill.
Have a good day !
BTW - you never "put a burning tank in the center of the scene" - that's basic painting and photography composition. "no shadows"??? If its overcast or the sun is overhead there will be no shadows. To put it bluntly - you haven't a clue what you're talking about - not a clue.
I've just posted one of Hitlers street scenes from 1925 - and I find it rather charming. You, no doubt, will think it crap.
but beeing kinda artist round WW1 does not save his reputation.
I can`t look into this drawings without thinking about the crimes that later came from his sick mind.
Atze Hitler and art? I recommend reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art .
"No Artistic Value"- The people in Vienna got it right early.
The new painitng you posted is actually better than the average bored housewife could hope to achieve but still sucks. It's boring and random, I mean, how many artists before or after him painted a view of the Stephansdom? If you like his naive style go ahead, but I think he painted in a naive way not because he chose to, but because he was actually a moron.
Hitler was rejected from the Vienna Academy because, like you, they thought he couldn't draw.
Of course every artist is only able to depict his "subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him" because, let's face it, there's no thing as an objective reality, it's an consensus reality at best. But that is besides the point. Painting in an expressionist (read: subjective, exaggerating) fashion depends on the artist's intention. And I don't think (and that is my whole point) that Hitler drew the way he did intentionally, or that he even "attemted to depict not objective reality", he just wasn't able to do it "right". As I stated before, Picasso actually was able to draw and most of the painters of the different avantgarde movements in the beginning of the 20th century were, too. They just chose deliberately to challenge current notions of depicting the supposed reality, whereas Hitler was just a fraud. Ask yourself: Would you or anyone else care about his paintings if they weren't made by Hitler?
And of course Hitler was exposed to all the artistic movements of the early 20th century, but that doesn't prove a thing, being exposed to something doesn't necessarily mean that you are influenced by it.