Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party in Germany in the years leading up to and during World War II, was also a painter. He produced hundreds of works and sold his paintings and postcards to try to earn a living during his years in Vienna (1908-13). Some of his paintings were discovered after World War II and have been sold at auction for tens of thousands of dollars. Others were seized by the US Army and still held by the US government.
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Hitler's style was taken into account when representing the architecture in his paintings. Instead of developing in its artistic influence, his works imitate nineteenth-century artists and other masters who preceded him. He claims to be the synthesis of many artistic movements but it is clear that he mainly comes from Greco-Roman classicism, Italian Renaissance, and Neoclassicism. He likes the technical skills of these artists, as well as understandable symbolism. Rudolf von Alt is his greatest "guru", as soon as he calls him. There is a similar subject and use of colors and in between, but Alt displays fantastic landscapes that give the same - if not more - attention to nature and the surrounding environment than to architecture.
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History
Artistic ambition
In his autobiography Adolf Hitler describes how, in his youth, he wanted to be a professional artist, but his ideals were destroyed because he failed the entrance examination of the Viennese Academy of the Pure Arts. Hitler was rejected twice by the institute, once in 1907 and back in 1908. In his first examination, he had passed the beginning; who drew two icons or Bible scenes assigned, in two sessions of three hours each. The second part is providing a pre-prepared portfolio for testers. It has been noted that Hitler's works contain "too little head". The institute considers that it has more talent in architecture than in painting. One of the instructors, who sympathized with his situation and believed he had a talent, suggested that he enroll in the Academy of Architecture. However, it would require returning to high school from which he dropped out of school and who did not want him to.
Later, when he used to color and pedal postcards featuring Viennese scenes, Hitler often visited artist cafés in Munich with unfulfilled hopes that established artists could help him with his ambitions to paint professionally.
According to a conversation in August 1939 before the outbreak of World War II, published in the British Blue Book War, Hitler told the British ambassador Nevile Henderson: "I am an artist and not a politician, once the Polish question is over, I want to end my life as an artist. "
Vienna period
From 1908 to 1913, Hitler colored a postcard and painted the house for a living. He painted his first self portrait in 1910 at the age of 21 years. This painting, along with twelve other paintings by Hitler, was discovered by US Major Sergeant Willie J. McKenna in 1945 in Essen, Germany.
Samuel Morgenstern, an Austrian businessman and business partner of the young Hitler in the Vienna period, bought many young Hitler paintings. According to Morgenstern, Hitler came to him for the first time in the early 1910s, either in 1911 or in 1912. When Hitler came to the Morgenstern glass shop for the first time, he offered Morgenstern his three paintings. Morgenstern keeps its client database, which allows buyers of young Hitler paintings. It was found that the majority of buyers were Jews. An important client of Morgenstern, a lawyer named Josef Feingold, bought a series of Hitler paintings depicting the old city of Vienna.
World War I
When Hitler served in World War I at the age of 25 in 1914, he brought his paintings in front of him and spent his free time doing art. The works he painted during this period were among the last before he became a politician. The themes of his wartime paintings include farmhouses, changing rooms, etc.
Auction sales
A number of Hitler's paintings were seized by the US Army at the end of World War II. They were taken to the United States with other material taken and still held by the US government, which refused to allow it to be exhibited. Other paintings are kept by private people. In the 2000s, a number of these works went on sale at auction. In 2009, Mullock's of Shropshire auction house sold 15 Hitler paintings for a total of? 97,672 (US $ 143,358). while Ludlow's of Shropshire sells 13 works for more than EUR100,000. In the 2012 auction in Slovakia, a mixed-media painting produced EUR32,000. And on November 18, 2014, watercolors by Hitler from the old registration office in Munich sold for EUR130,000 at an auction in Nuremberg. Watercolors include sales bills and letters signed by Albert Bormann, which may have contributed to a relatively high selling price. In July 2017, Mullock sold two images of rare oil. One shows a house on the lake.
A group of scholars estimated that there were only 300 works completed by Hitler during his life span; However, Hitler mentions in his book, Mein Kampf , that while in Vienna, he produced about two or three paintings a day. Even if he painted one portrait a day during the years spent in Vienna, that number would be over 600. Peter Jahn, perhaps one of the foremost experts on Hitler's art, said he had two interviews with Hitler. Hitler said that in six years he spent in Vienna and Munich, "1908-1914, he produced over a thousand paintings, some of them in oil", like the Hitler tree on the track from 1911.
Jahn was one of the original people assigned by Schulte Stratthaus, before Hitler annexed Austria in 1938. Stratthaus had been appointed by Hitler in 1936 to search for and buy paintings painted by Hitler from 1907 to 1912, and 1921 to 1922. Jahn spent nearly four year trace of Hitler's early works, until he was summoned to military service. Jahn became Art Consultant for the German Embassy in Vienna in 1937, where he would later search, buy, and collect Hitler's artwork, in order to destroy most of the paintings. Jahn currently sells one of Hitler's greatest art collections, about 18 pieces, with an average selling price of $ 50,000.
One of Hitler's most extensive personal collections is stored at the Museum of World War II in Natick, Massachusetts.
Critical analysis
After seeing the paintings Hitler sent to the Viennese arts academy, John Gunther wrote, "They are prosaic, devoid of any rhythm, color, feeling, or spiritual imagination, they are sketches of architects: painful and precise contemplation, nothing more It is not surprising that the Viennese professor told him to go to architecture school and leave pure art as a hope ". A critic of modern art was asked to review some of his paintings without being told who painted them and judging them to be "pretty good". The different styles in which he drew human figures, however, said the critics, represented a deep disinterest in people.
According to a report titled Hitler Water Color: Improved Art: Reverence to Rodolfo Siviero , prepared by Fratelli Alinari, Hitler's water color proves he is "grim" as a painter.
Painting
Page from the Old Residence Munich
The page of the Old Residence in Munich (1914) is one of Adolf Hitler's paintings. He describes Alter Hof, a stone cube in front of a large house. During Hitler's time in Munich, he spent most of his days reading and painting; advancing his dream as an independent artist.
Working primarily in watercolors, Hitler used the medium to express his passion for painting and architecture. The painting shows the style and mastery of the watercolors to create a rigorous depiction of the building, but on the left we see two soft standing trees to distinguish the home hardline. In many of Hitler's watercolors, the scholar Charles Snyder notes "the detailed attention to simple structures surrounded by water and vegetation, [but] architecture is paramount... Note the life of plants, especially leaves in the tree.Leaves are usually changed and dappled with little regard accuracy or realism, often used to 'frame' the subject ".
A small fountain between two trees painted on the right right.
The Page from the Old Residence in Munich and some of Hitler's other paintings filed in the basement of Military History Military Center in Washington, DC, have never been shown publicly because of their controversial nature.
Note
References
- Barron, Stephanie, Declining Art: Avant-Garde's Destiny in Nazi Germany (Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991).
- Hitler, Adolf, and Ralph Manheim, Mein Kampf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943).
- Price, Billy,
- Snyder, Charles, "Real Deal - Adolf Hitler Original Artworks", taken June 10, 2014.
- Zalampas, Sherree Owens, Adolf Hitler: Psychological Interpretation His View of Architecture, Art, and Music (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1990). ISBN: 978-0879724870
Further reading
- Pastore, Stephen R. (2013). Adolf Hitler's Art: His Painting and Picture Studies . Grand Oak Books.
- Price, Billy F. (1984). Adolf Hitler: The Unknown Artist . Stephen Cook. ISBN: 978-0-9612894-0-9.
- Price, Billy F. (1983). Adolf Hitler als Maler and Zeichner: ein Werkkatalog der ÃÆ' â € "lgemÃÆ'¤lde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Architekturskizzen . Gallant Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-277-00103-1.
- Spotts, Frederic (2004). Hitler and Aesthetic Power . The Overlook Press. pp. 123-147. ISBNÃ, 1-58567-507-5.
External links
- Hitler's Painting in German Propaganda File
- Hitler's painting on the Munich site and today's Crime Trail
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