Recently discovered paintings by Adolf Hitler to go under the hammer
Published: 17 April, 2009, 14:54
Thirteen paintings, mostly watercolors, including an apparent self-portrait of the young Hitler, were recently discovered in a garage. They will go up for auction on April 25, daily Nurnberger Abendzeitung reports.
Hitler signed most of his works with simply his initials. One watercolor painting depicts a man standing on a stone-built bridge, which some suggest is a self-portrait of the young artist who would one day go on to unleash World War II.
Previous auctions of Hitler’s paintings have raised considerable sums of money. At an auction in the United Kingdom in 2006, twenty-one paintings fetched a total of £155,000.
The recently discovered paintings will be put on auction in the end of April in the United Kingdom and Nuremburg, Germany. The bidding is expected to start at €3,500 ($4,600 US), according to a catalogue published by the Weidler auction house, which is putting the works up for sale.
In his early twenties, the man who would go on to become the notorious German dictator had artistic ambitions and painted many works using watercolors.
Unfortunately for the rest of the world, Hitler was rejected twice from entering the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1907 and 1908, after being told he lacked talent as a painter. Rather than give up his passion, Hitler earned money by copying scenes from postcards and selling his works to tourists.
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